UK - Libby Squire, 21, last seen outside Welly club, Hull, 31 Jan 2019 *ARREST* #18

[Catsarse]

Hello all locals to hull and East Yorkshire. I remember some names from when Libby first disappeared before her body was found. Everyone really pulled together and was amazing posting up to date information.

the past two years feels strange, like a lifetime ago and yet gone so quickly. I knew he’d plead not guilty. I wonder has he been advised that as they think they can argue against the evidence and give potential of doubt to the jurors?

They must have evidence of him raping her then? Really awful for her family to hear everything

 

[Legally Bland]

I hope this is a mistake:

Sheffield Crown Court 1 T20207204
Pawel Piotr Relowicz
Details: For Trial - Interpreter Sworn - 10:58
For Trial - Case adjourned until 12:00 - 11:11
For Trial - Resume - 11:59
For Trial - Trial Ineffective - 12:50

https://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Sheffield-Crown-Court.php

An ineffective trial means that the trial cannot go ahead on this date but will be heard again at another time.

https://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Court-Lists-Status.php#20918

 

[Vera_dci]

Hes probably going go for consensual sex gone wrong. Like the perpetrator in Grace Malones murder.

 

[Alyce]

Might just be a problem today ? interpreter can't be there this afternoon, something like that ?

 

[Legally Bland]

Another update, it looks ok:

For Trial - Case adjourned until 14:05 - 13:08

https://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Sheffield-Crown-Court.php

 

[jamjim]

Another update, it looks ok:

For Trial - Case adjourned until 14:05 - 13:08

https://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Sheffield-Crown-Court.php

That’s more like it! Looks as though Prosecution are starting things off after lunch, so fingers crossed no more delays!

 

[Sally4x]

Hes probably going go for consensual sex gone wrong. Like the perpetrator in Grace Malones murder.

IMO I think he will say he picked her up in his car and they went and had consensual sex on the bench in the park that the police were so fixated on and that she ran off after and therefore must have fallen in the river.

 

[VicBlazey]

This case first brought me to WS, I can't believe it's been two long years for poor Libby's family. She's never been far from the forefront of my mind, I know that's the same for most of us here. I feel sick with anticipation of what's to come in the next few weeks. I hope with all my heart her family finally get justice for their beautiful girl.

 

[Vera_dci]

IMO I think he will say he picked her up in his car and they went and had consensual sex on the bench in the park that the police were so fixated on and that she ran off after and therefore must have fallen in the river.

I think you're spot on. We questioned the late night csi bench trip on here at the time. Wonder if whilst PR was in custody for abduction.

 

[Mind your biscuits]

IMO I think he will say he picked her up in his car and they went and had consensual sex on the bench in the park that the police were so fixated on and that she ran off after and therefore must have fallen in the river.

That's what I think too. How many times did we look at that spider web clip? So sad, hope she gets justice. Moo.

 

[jamjim]

14:16Sophie Corcoran
The trial has started again
Richard Wright QC has began addressing the jury.


Pawel Relowicz on trial for Libby Squire murder court updates

 

[jamjim]

14:17Sophie Corcoran
Libby's body was found on March 20
The opening notes from prosecutor Richard Wright QC have revealed a body was found by the skipper of a pleasure fishing boat angling off Spurn Point, off the Humber Estuary on March 20, 2019.

After the skipper alerted authorities the RNLI Spurn Point lifeboat, The Pride of the Humber, was launched.

The body was removed using specialist equipment and transported to the quayside at Grimsby.

One of the crewmen saw a gold necklace around the neck with a letter L – the body was that of Libby Squire.

 

[jamjim]

14:19Sophie Corcoran
Members of the public tried to help Libby the night she disappeared
Libby’s disappearance on the night of January 31, 2019, sparked a “massive search effort” by the authorities, with several members of the public seeing Libby on Beverley Road that night.

Mr Wright said: “It was freezing cold, there was snow on the ground and [Libby] was not dressed for the weather. She was drunk, she was likely hypothermic, and she was in deep distress.

“She had lost her house keys, she was crying, she had fallen repeatedly to the floor as she tried to walk and she was extremely vulnerable.

“Some good citizens had tried to help her, but in her intoxicated state she became agitated to the point that they gave up their efforts and left her by the roadside. From there she had seemingly vanished.”

Pawel Relowicz on trial for Libby Squire murder court updates

 

[jamjim]

14:20
'One man knew very well where Libby had gone'
Mr Wright continued: “One man knew very well where Libby had gone. That man is the defendant Pawel Relowicz. He lived with his family in a residential street a short distance from Libby’s home and he had come across her, drunk and vulnerable as she was, on Beverley Road in Hull.

“Pawel Relowicz had not helped Libby home. Instead, once she was inside his vehicle, he drove her away from what would have been that place of safety and to some nearby playing fields at Oak Road.

“The defendant was well familiar with that remote spot and no doubt chose it so that he would not be disturbed.”

It has then been said by the prosecution that, once at Oak Road playing fields, Relowicz “raped Libby and killed her in an … act of sexual violence”.

Mr Wright said: “[This] culminated in his putting her, dead or dying, into the cold waters of the River Hull that bordered the edge of that playing field.

“It was from there that Libby’s body travelled into the Humber and then out to sea.”

Pawel Relowicz on trial for Libby Squire murder court updates

 

[jamjim]

14:29
Background into Libby
At the time of her disappearance, then 21-year-old Libby was living with three other female students at 32 Wellesley Avenue in Hull, and was studying Philosophy at the University of Hull, having moved from her family home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

Libby was in a settled and happy relationship with a long-term boyfriend, who lived in Buckinghamshire, but had previously struggled with her mental health. However, at the time of her disappearance she was “coping well with life and not depressed”.

Pawel Relowicz on trial for Libby Squire murder court updates

 

[jamjim]

14:31
Relowicz was living with his wife and children at the time of Libby's death
His home in Raglan Street is also marked out on the map.

Relowicz is originally from Poland but lived with his wife and two children in Hull at the time.

Mr Wright says he worked as a butcher at Karro Foods in Malton but had been signed off sick by his doctor on January 28, 2019. He was excused from working until February 1.

Pawel Relowicz on trial for Libby Squire murder court updates

 

[jamjim]

14:33
The night of January 31
Mr Wright says Libby and her housemates were drinking at home before moving on to the home of another student.

He says: "They moved onto his house in Cromer Street at about 8.30 that evening. At that house Libby was drinking from a bottle of rose wine. All of those who saw her and interacted with her that evening thought she was in good spirits and was enjoying her night.

"At around 11pm that evening the students left on foot and walked to the Welly, situated on Wellington Lane where it joins Beverley Road. Some of those in the group noted the fresh air seemed to accentuate Libby's level of intoxication and she seemed drunk as she walked.

"Libby would not take her phone with her on a night out as she had smashed too many screens before. Doorstaff refused entry on the basis she appeared to be drunk. She did not appear to her friends to be annoyed by that and she told them she would walk home.

"It was cold that night."

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire

 

[jamjim]

14:38
Libby was taken home in a taxi
Mr Wright says Libby's friends put her in a taxi outside Welly and told the taxi driver where she lived. They also paid him the fare in advance.

The prosecutor said: "This was just before 11.30pm. The taxi driver who drove her home thought she seemed alert and she told him she was ok.

"The driver took her to Wellesley Avenue and dropped her outside her home. She was obviously drunk and was able to walk albeit in an unstable manner."

Instead of walking to her front door, Mr Wright says Libby approached a group of young men waiting for a taxi and as she did so she fell onto her face.

He added: "She was helped up. She then declared she was fine and set off walking away from the safety of her front door and towards Beverley Road.

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire

 

[jamjim]

14:40
Libby was heard crying and helped
Moments later Libby was heard crying outside the house of other students at the junction with Wellesley Avenue and Beverley Road.

One of the students opened the door and allowed Libby inside.

Libby appeared to be drunk and upset but was at that stage uninjured. She told them she wanted to go home and left their house. She did not return to her home and instead headed in the opposite direction to Beverley Road.

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire

 

[jamjim]

14:42
Libby found 'drunk and sobbing' in Beverley Road
The jury has been told Libby dropped her house keys in the students' garden. These were later recovered by police.

Mr Wright said: "On Beverley Road a number of members of the public saw Libby and were concerned about her condition."

One of these was a woman who saw her close to Endsleigh Centre on Beverley Road, where Libby was 'drunk and sobbing'.

When asked if she was ok, Libby said she wanted to get back to Wellesley Avenue but was walking in the wrong direction.

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire