Man to be sentenced in Sheffield after raping and murdering student Libby Squire

Killer Pawel Relowicz picked up Libby Squire when she was in a ‘vulnerable and distressed’ state on the streets of Hull after a night out.

The 26-year-old butcher showed no emotion as he was convicted by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday.

He raped 21-year-old Libby, described by her parents as a ‘beautiful, caring, wonderful girl’, on a playing field in Hull before dumping her in a river on February 1, 2019.

Speaking outside Sheffield Crown Court yesterday, Libby’s mum, Lisa Squire, said: “Libby will always be with us and we are all so proud of our beautiful, caring, wonderful girl.

“And although she has been physically taken from us, the memories we have and the love we share will never be taken.”

Hull University student Libby was reported missing when she failed to return home from a night out and her body was found in the Humber Estuary seven weeks later.

Married dad-of-two Relowicz picked up the second year philosophy student as she wandered around the Beverley Road area of Hull in a confused, upset and drunken state in freezing conditions.

She had been out with friends, but was refused entry to a club because she was drunk.

Her friends paid a taxi driver to take her home but, instead of going into her shared student house, Ms Squire wandered the streets.

Giving evidence through an interpreter, Polish-born Relowicz, of Raglan Street, Hull, told the court he was driving around the city on the evening of Ms Squire’s disappearance because he was ‘looking for a woman to have easy sex’.

He claimed they had consensual sex and that he did not kill the young woman but Gerry Wareham, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said he had invented a ‘web of lies’.

“Relowicz invented a web of lies to explain his actions that night, insisting throughout that he had tried to help Libby find her way home,” he said.

“Nothing could be further from the truth. Far from being a good Samaritan, Relowicz preyed upon her, he took advantage of her vulnerable and distressed state and then he raped and murdered her.”

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