Libby Squire: Pawel Relowicz found guilty of the rape and murder of Hull student

The jury at Sheffield Crown Court found Pawel Relowicz guilty of both Miss Squire's rape and murder, following six days of deliberations.

As the verdict was read out, Relowicz bowed his head.

Miss Squire, 21, vanished after she was turned away from the Welly nightclub in Hull for being too drunk, following a night out with friends in the early hours of February 1, 2019.

Her body was found by a fishing boat in the Humber estuary six weeks later on March 20.

the philosophy student was murdered by married father-of-two Pawel Relowicz, who picked her up in Haworth Street, just off Beverley Road in Hull, before driving her to the nearby Oak Road playing fields where he raped her. The prosecution say he then dumped her body in the River Hull, either after killing her in the park or alive, leaving her to drown.

Relowicz, formerly of Raglan Street, Hull, told the jury he did not kill Miss Squire, but said the pair had consensual sex on Oak Road, before he left her alive wandering off towards Beresford Avenue.

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