Libby Squire murder accused gave five different versions about what happened on night she went missing

Pawel Relowicz, 26, is accused of the rape and murder of 21-year-old Miss Squire, who disappeared after a night out with friends in Hull on the early hours of February 1, 2019. Her body was recovered from the River Hull six weeks later.

The prosecution allege Relowicz targeted Miss Squire who was "drunk and extremely vulnerable" and took her to Oak Road Playing Fields where he raped and killed her, before putting her body in the river.

Relowicz previously told a jury at Sheffield Crown Court he had a sex addiction and was looking for easy sex on the night Miss Squire disappeared. He claims the pair had consensual sex, before he left her on Oak Road,Hull, never to see her again.

On his cross-examination of Relowicz, Richard Wright QC questioned why the defendant had given five different accounts of what happened after he picked up Miss Squire on Beverley Road.

Mr Wright explained how, on February 6, 2019, when asked by police what had happened to Miss Squire, Relowicz, simply said he didn't know and that he hadn't abducted her.

A day later he told police he had stopped his car on Oak Road as Miss Squire was making sounds as if she wanted to vomit. He said he got out the car to urinate and she walked off normally onto Beresford Avenue.

His fourth account was what he told the jury during the trial.

His fifth account was the defence statement written on February 5, 2020, in which he denies raping and killing Miss Squire, but says he came across her, agreed to give her a lift home to her mother's. He said she was affected by drink and upset, but on route she removed her knickers and gently threw them at him.

"Is that true or not?" Mr Wright asked.

"This is not true," Relowicz said.

"Why did you say in your statement that she removed her knickers and gently threw them at the accused?"

Relowicz said: "This was a lie.”

Mr Wright said: “So you continued to tell deliberate lies?”

Relowicz said: "I did not want my wife to find out I had cheated on her.”

Relowicz said: “I didn’t want to tell her I had sex with another woman.”

Mr Wright accused Relowicz of "twisting" his account to fit in with prosecution evidence.

Mr Wright also said the trial was the first time Relowicz had admitted the scratches he had on his face were from Miss Squire, stating he got them from her after he refused to kiss her a second time.

Mr Wright said: "That girl scratched your face because she was desperately trying to get you off her wasn’t she? You weighed 14 stone, you were a fit young man who worked as a butcher.

“She was a drunk, upset, hypothermic, young girl. And she was no match for you at all was she? The most she could do, as you attacked her, raped and killed her was land that scratch on your face Mr Relowicz.”

Relowicz said: "That is not true."

The court also heard that Relowicz went looking for women to offend against just hours after his encounter with Miss Squire because it "wasn't enough" for him due to his sex addiction, which saw him pleasuring himself in the street on the same evening.

Speaking through an interpreter, Polish-born Relowicz said he had the thought of masturbating "stuck in his head".

Mr Wright said: "You were back out driving around looking for women that you could masturbate at. Three hours and 20 minutes of driving around wanting to do that earlier in the evening.

"You say you had consensual sex with Libby Squire. Should we understand that wasn't enough for you? Because you had to be back out again looking for other women to masturbate at."

Relowicz said: "Yes, this is correct."

Mr Wright asked the defendant about masturbating in the street, which was caught on CCTV in the early hours of February 1, and said: "Were you still sexually excited about what you had done to Libby Squire at Oak Road?

"Did the fact that you had raped her and killed her sexually excite you, Mr Relowicz?"

He replied: "This is not correct."

The trial continues.