Who is Pawel Relowicz? The Polish butcher who behind his family man facade held a dark killer secret

The Yorkshire Post takes a look at the life of Pawel Relowicz - the man who raped and murdered University of Hull student Libby Squire.
Murderer Pawel Relowicz prowls the streets of Hull just hours after killing student Libby Squire.Murderer Pawel Relowicz prowls the streets of Hull just hours after killing student Libby Squire.
Murderer Pawel Relowicz prowls the streets of Hull just hours after killing student Libby Squire.

Pawel Relowicz was born in Poland on June 25, 1994.

In his own words, he came to the UK "for work and to earn good money".

His sister was already living in Hull, so he came to the country and moved in with her.

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His sister soon moved away from Hull, but Relowicz stayed in the East Yorkshire city.

Relowicz met his wife Jagoda on a trip back to Poland and the couple began a relationship. She moved back to Hull to live with him in Raglan Street.

They married a year after meeting and have two children. At the time of Libby Squire's disappearance, the children were aged two and four months.

Relowicz worked at Karro Foods in Malton, but was on sick at the end of January 2019.

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Despite portraying himself as a young family man, Relowicz had a dark sexual secret.

In offences that span for two years, from 2017 to 2019, Relowicz would leave his wife at home and go out, mainly targeting student areas, to watch young women through their windows, masturbate at them in the streets and break into their homes to steal sex toys and underwear.

When Relowicz was arrested in connection with Miss Squire's disappearance in February 2019, officers searched his car and found two masks and a holdall in the boot, containing stolen vibrators, personal photographs and underwear.

The underwear yielded a DNA profile matching that of Relowicz from saliva and semen,

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Relowicz first denied the offences, but on the first day of his trial in August 2019, he pleaded guilty to nine counts of voyeurism, outraging public decency and burglary.

Speaking about this, Relowicz said: "I denied them because I have a family, I have small children and a wife and it was difficult for me to accept I had a problem..

"I liked watching couples have sex, I just liked doing it and there was something sexy about it. It was some kind of fetish."

On the night of January 31, Relowicz was captured on CCTV visiting the Tesco petrol station on Hall Road in Hull. His car is also seen driving around the west Hull area and making a trip to the Oak Road playing field.

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He is also captured stopping his car in Haworth Street, before he gets out and crosses the road to head down Beresford Avenue. He is then seen coming back out of Beresford Avenue and intercepting Miss Squire on Beverley Road, before she is seen getting into his parked car.

His car is then seen making its way to Oak Road playing fields just after midnight on February 1. It remains there for some several minutes before the vehicle is seen again. Relowicz is captured going back to his home in Raglan Street, however, Miss Squire was never seen alive again.

Since his first arrest on February 6, 2019, Relowicz gave five versions of what happened on January 31 and February 1.

The five versions are:

Version 1: On February 6, 2019, the day Relowicz was first arrested, he asked police how he was "supposed to know" what had happened to Miss Squire, adding: "I didn't abduct her."

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Version 2: In an interview on February 7, 2019, Relowicz told officers he had offered to give Miss Squire a lift home, but had to stop his car at Oak Road as she started to retch. He said he got out of the car to urinate near by and Miss Squire had walked off "normally" onto Beresford Avenue.

Version 3: Relowicz is alleged to have told differing accounts of that night to two of his friends. He told one of his friends how a woman had flagged his car down on Beverley Road, got into the vehicle and as he was driving she had tried to undo his belt so he threw her out of the car. He told another friend that the girl he came across started to remove her knickers. Relowicz has since denied both of these accounts.

Version 4: In his defence statement, written on February 5, 2020, Relowicz said he was giving Miss Squire a lift home when she took off her knickers and "gently" threw them at him. He then explains that the pair got out of his car on Oak Road and Miss Squire fell over. He went to help her up and they had sex on a patch of grass next to his car. Relowicz said he saw Miss Squire pick up her underwear from the ground, before walking away upset and that was the last time he saw her.

Version 5: During his trial, Relowicz admitted he was looking to commit a sexual offence on the night of January 31, as he drove around the city streets, but became "curious" when he encountered Miss Squire on Beverley Road, crying and asking for help. He said he offered to give her a lift home and was concerned about a group of Romanians sat in a Renault Scenic car on Haworth Street, where he had parked his car. When the Romanians left he said Miss Squire started trying car door handles and he showed her where his vehicle was by unlocking it with his key fob. He said that once in his car he asked Miss Squire for her address and she directed him in the direction of Oak Road. He explains that he thought she was going to be sick so he stopped the car.

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He said that he pulled Miss Squire up after she got out of his car and fell to the ground, before he left the car to urinate. He said that when he returned, Miss Squire asked him for a hug, which he gave her and that they then began kissing. He said Miss Squire laid on the floor and they had consensual sex close to a green shed on Oak Road. Relowicz said he stopped having sex with her when she began retching again and when he pulled her up, she tried to kiss him, but she had saliva around her mouth and he didn't want to. He said Miss Squire was angry and scratched his face and as he went to drive away, she started shouting and screaming at him not to leave her.

Relowicz said he returned to his home, had a bath and watched some pornography. He said he was worried about the state Miss Squire had been in and returned to Oak Road to see if he could see her, but did not.

This was all a lie. In reality he had raped Miss Squire, before murdering her and dumping her body in the River Hull, hoping his killer secret would never be uncovered.

Today, after nearly 28 hours of jury deliberations, he was found guilty of her rape and murder.

He will be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday.