Libby Squire’s devastated mum Lisa has been left tormented by unanswered questions about the night Pawel Relowicz lured her daughter into his car during a night out in Hull
The heartbroken mum of university student Libby Squire has fired off a letter to her daughter’s killer in a desperate bid for answers after being cruelly snubbed. Lisa Squire is still plagued by agonising questions over the final moments of her 21-year-old daughter, who was hunted down by Polish butcher Pawel Relowicz during a night out seven years ago.
The monster, now 26, has already twice refused to meet the grieving mum face-to-face. After being hit by the killer’s “cowardly” rejections, defiant Lisa has now forced him to face her words by writing directly to his prison cell, where the beast is currently rotting behind bars.
The depraved predator is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of the student.
In the letter, Lisa, 52, posed several questions to Relowicz. She wrote: “You asked me what questions I wanted to ask you. Well, there are so many. But here’s a few to get started with.
“When you picked Libby up, what did you say to her? How did you get her in your car? Did you promise her a lift home?
“Did you promise that she would be out of the cold? Did you force her into your car? If you forced her into the car how did you manage to do that?
“When she was in your car was she warmer? Was she chatty? Was she sleepy? You made choices that night. Why did you choose to do that?”
She added: “After you raped her and murdered her, how did you throw her into the river? Did you get her in head first ? Feet first? Did you roll her in? Did you drop her in? Why did you do what you did?
“Why didn’t you just assault her, if that’s what you had planned, but leave her alive? If you’ve planned all along to kill her why didn’t you just kill her and leave her in the field?”
Despite her desperate need for answers from her daughter’s murderer, a devastated Lisa said she’s uncertain if she could trust anything he says.
She wrote: “You see there are so many questions I need to have answers to. But even if I asked you those questions I don’t know if I believe your answers. You’re a psychopath. You’ll only say what will look good for you.”
Libby, the eldest of Lisa’s three children, was just 20 when she relocated from High Wycombe, Bucks, to Kingston-upon-Hull, to study philosophy at Hull University.
She was assaulted after leaving a club in the Yorkshire city on February 1, 2019, during a night out with university friends.
Lisa, who was working a night shift as a nurse on a post-natal ward, recalls receiving a phone call from one of Libby’s flatmates at 1.09am, informing her that Libby hadn’t come home. She contacted the police at 2.57am to report her missing.
Police launched an appeal for information and received a tip about a car, which they traced back to Relowicz, who lived locally with his partner and young children.
The police later inspected the silver Vauxhall Astra and discovered a bag filled with women’s underwear, sex toys and photos of unidentified young women.
After enticing Libby into his vehicle, Relowicz drove to the Oak Road Playing Fields, where he sexually assaulted and killed Libby, before discarding her body in the early hours of February 1.
However, it took 48 days for her body to be discovered floating in the Humber Estuary on March 20, following the most extensive search in Humberside Police’s history.
In her letter, Lisa addressed Relowicz: “Because of you Libby died in the most horrendous way. A way in which all women fear. When she was recovered, 48 agonising days later, she had lost all her hair.”
Addressing any misunderstandings the murderer may have about her, Lisa wrote: “I don’t wish you harm, but I don’t wish you a pleasant life either. You may have seen in the press that I have said that I don’t hate you, maybe this confuses you? The truth is I don’t hate you because I don’t allow you any space in my head.”
Lisa added: “You may also have seen in the press that I am working to keep you in prison for the rest of your life. Please rest assured that I am going to do that and you will never see the light of day again if I have anything to do with it.”
Relowicz, a married father-of-two, who had committed a series of other sex crimes, including voyeuristic offences and indecent exposure to women on the street in the months prior, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 27 years at Sheffield Crown Court in 2021.
In a final reproach, Lisa told him: “I have nothing else to say to you. I know you probably won’t want to read this letter because you’re a coward and I think that’s fairly obvious from the actions that you have shown in the past by abducting, raping and killing a vulnerable girl and by refusing to see her mother – fairly cowardly actions.”
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