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

[jamjim]

14:43
Two men stopped to help after she was found lying in the snow
Mr Wright said: "Two men were on their way home from a darts match when they saw Libby at the side of the road laying in the snow near to the junction at Haworth Street."

He said the men had noted her knees were bloodied by this point.

"The men asked her where she lived and were unable to understand what she was saying and she began to become verbally aggressive and the men decided to give up on her and drove away," Mr Wright added.

Mr Wright says another woman saw Libby just before midnight when she was sitting on the floor close to a bus stop at the junction with Haworth Street.

Mr Wright said: "She was crying and saying she just wanted to go home."

She was last seen by the manager of the Sainsbury's on Beverley Road as he locked up, at around midnight.

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire

 

[jamjim]

14:45
Libby heard shouting 'Don't leave me'
The Sainsbury's manager saw a car manoeuvring at the dead end of Haworth Street.

Mr Wright said: "Libby was sitting on the pavement and appeared to be shouting, saying something like 'Don't leave me.'

"She was not seen again by any member of the public. She did not return home to 32 Wellesley Avenue and would never again.

"Her friends, parents and boyfriend were worried when they heard nothing from her."

When she was reported missing, police began to investigate and look at CCTV in and around Hull.

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire

 

[LucyRocket]

So many people

She was so desperately incapacitated

 

[jamjim]

Oh Libby

 

[jamjim]

14:49
CCTV footage shows Libby coming into contact with Relowicz
Mr Wright says Relowicz met Libby just after she was last seen near Haworth Street.

He said: "From the trawl of CCTV relevant footage has been identified and pieced together to allow us to piece together [Relowicz's] movements before he came into contact with Libby, when and afterwards.

"You will see he is driving the same vehicle throughout. It was a silver Vauxhall Astra."

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire

 

[Vera_dci]

So many people

She was so desperately incapacitated

Heart breaking , she was so close to her home too

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

It's so upsetting that so many good people intervened and tried to help and yet she still ended up in his clutches. Poor Libby

 

[Mommysleuth11]

I had heard about the men who tried to help when she bashed her knees in and she told them to "go away" not so politely. How absolutely shattering this must be for her family, the one person it appeared she trusted was the one who she should have ran a million miles from.

 

[LucyRocket]

Heart breaking , she was so close to her home too

And trying, in her mind, to get there

 

[VicBlazey]

So many people

She was so desperately incapacitated

So so sad... You can't help thinking 'what if'... If she hadn't dropped her keys, if she let one of those passers by take her home, if she stayed in the students house... My heart breaks for her all over again

 

[Kelumbo]

Heartbreaking and so hard to read

 

[Sally4x]

So so sad... You can't help thinking 'what if'... If she hadn't dropped her keys, if she let one of those passers by take her home, if she stayed in the students house... My heart breaks for her all over again

Mine does as well. So many missed chances for her to get home. Hearing how distressed she was and imagining how cold she must have been just makes it worse. Poor Libby.

 

[ChiCubs2016]

Reading about Libby’s time between being turned down at the Welly to her last sighting is heartbreaking to me. Contact with so many people who tried to help her but were unable is so sad. MOO.

 

[Kelumbo]

In her mums statement she said Libby was scared of the dark and of water

 

[Mommysleuth11]

Heartfelt sympathy for all those who tried to intervene, as much as they are not to blame and could never have know the fate that would become her, it must absolutely torture them, knowing what they do now.

 

[Cherwell]

Really difficult to understand why she didn't just go inside when dropped at her door. She still had her keys at that point.

 

[Pip2602]

Putting Libby's state of mind and level of intoxication to the jury early.
Maybe predicting the defence using consent as a strategy?

 

[Vera_dci]

Really difficult to understand why she didn't just go inside when dropped at her door. She still had her keys at that point.

Was she hoping to carry on the night elsewhere. She fell over walking to a group of lads waiting for a taxi, I wonder if she felt embarrassed and decided not to talk to them.

 

[jamjim]

15:05
'He raped and killed her and put her into the river'

The footage is being shown alongside a series of maps.

Mr Wright says the jury will be able to see both Libby and Relowicz's movements before and as they meet. They will then be able to use the footage to follow them in Relowicz's car from Haworth Street to Oak Road Playing Fields.

He said: "But we will never see Libby again in the footage after he took her there. No car picked her up after the defendant had taken her there that night. We will invite you to conclude that is because he raped and killed her there and put her into the river."

Pawel Relowicz on trial for murder of Hull student Libby Squire

 

[VicBlazey]

Putting Libby's state of mind and level of intoxication to the jury early.
Maybe predicting the defence using consent as a strategy?

Yes you're right there, but if she was in such a distressed state and practically incapacitated, surely that won't hold up. It's clear she wasn't in full control, the poor girl.