Libby Squire’s mother says she is ‘grateful’ to daughter’s ‘brave’ killer for agreeing to meet her
Libby Squire’s mother says she is ‘grateful’ to her daughter’s ‘brave’ killer for agreeing to meet her so she can ask him how he killed the 21-year-old
- Lisa Squire is preparing to meet the sexual predator who murdered her daughter
- Pawel Relowicz was convicted of killing philosophy student Libby Squire in 2019
- Libby’s mother Lisa says she’s ‘grateful’ to Relowicz for agreeing to meet with her
The mother of Libby Squire who was raped and murdered after a night out has said she is ‘really grateful’ to her daughter’s attacker for agreeing to meet her so she can ask him how he killer her.
Polish butcher Pawel Relowicz, 26, was convicted of killing the philosophy student when he chanced upon her after she had been out with friends.
Mrs Squire said she is ‘grateful’ to Relowicz for so far agreeing to meet her to talk – as she had not expected he would say yes.
Libby’s mother even described Relowicz as braver than herself for accepting the proposed meet, saying ‘it must be incredibly hard to sit across the table with the woman whose daughter you’ve killed.’
Mrs Squire said it’s ‘incredibly difficult not knowing how your child has died’ as she appeared on Good Morning Britain today, adding ‘he is the only person that can tell me that.’
Libby Squire’s mother Lisa told GMB presenters Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway she is ‘grateful’ to her daughter’s killer for agreeing to meet her to talk
Libby disappeared during a night out with university friends in Hull in January 2019
Pawel Relowicz, 26, was on the prowl looking for a vulnerable victim when he murdered Libby on February 1, 2019
Libby’s mother told presenters Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway: ‘For me, it’s about honouring her and knowing. I feel if I don’t find out, I’m letting her down in a way.
‘Also my other three children – it would be nice to be able to say to them this is what happened. It’s the end of her life and it’s important to know.’
Mrs Squire said she’s ‘not as tortured about it’ as she was in the ‘early days’.
‘I don’t actually think too much about him [Relowicz] which has been a conscious choice because you can go down a very dark path and there’s enough to deal with without having to deal with him as well,’ she said.
‘But I was actually really grateful that he said yes because when I first started this process I thought he’s just not going to do it because he didn’t show any remorse in court.
Ms Squire said she is ‘grateful’ to Relowicz for agreeing to meet her to talk – as she had not expected he would say yes
‘I’m really quite grateful that he’s considering it and so far has said yes.
‘He won’t get anything from doing this, they don’t get a reduction in sentence – he’s still quite a young man, young enough to be my son in reality and it must be incredibly hard to sit across the table with the woman whose daughter you’ve killed.
‘So it’s quite brave of him. People say it’s brave of me but I think it’s actually probably more brave of him.’
Mrs Squire has previously said: ‘I don’t hate him, I really don’t. I find anger and hatred incredibly draining, so I choose not to go down that route. Just trying to muddle through life without Libby is hard enough and there are days when I don’t even want to mother my other three children, or go to work, or walk the dog. I just want to wallow in my Libby world.
‘Grief can be all-consuming. So if I had hatred to contend with on top of all that it would just be an extra layer of s***; too much to cope with.’
Relowicz, who is now serving 27 years for his heinous crimes, has always denied his guilt.
Libby’s mother said it’s ‘ incredibly difficult not knowing how your child has died’
Lisa Squire has previously said she feared no lessons have been learned since her daughter (pictured together) was raped and murdered in 2019
Libby disappeared during a night out with university friends in Hull. She had gone to a nightclub but doormen considered her too drunk to be admitted. Her friends put her into a taxi, paid the fare and gave instructions for her to be taken home.
But after the driver dropped her at her shared student house, she’d wandered off into the cold, snowy night and became hypothermic, confused and tearful. She was in this vulnerable state when Relowicz pounced.
It was seven weeks before her body was dredged from the Humber Estuary, submerged for so long that pathologists were unable to determine the cause of her death.
No date has yet been set for Lisa’s meeting with Relowicz, arranged via a restorative justice charity, and although he has said he does not want to talk about what happened on the night he killed Libby, Lisa has previously said: ‘I will wear him down eventually. I’ll keep on until I find out.’