RAPED and murdered before her body was dumped in the River Hull, Libby Squire’s death in 2019 shocked the nation. During the trial of her killer Pawel Relowicz , who was 26 at the time of conviction, it emerged that Libby had not been his first victim – far from it. Relowicz had committed what his barrister called “utterly disgusting” sexual offences in the months before that night, including voyeurism, masturbating in the street and stealing sex toys and underwear from women’s homes .
Three months before her death, Libby had also been the victim of a non-contact sex crime , committed by an unidentified male, who indecently exposed himself as she walked home with a friend. He may or may not have been Pawel Relowicz. “Libby was furious,” says Lisa , 52, in an exclusive interview with Fabulous.
“She said: ‘How dare someone think they can do that to me?’ “I didn’t realise [it is classified as] a sex crime, and it never crossed my mind to tell her to report it. Libby didn’t think to report it, either. “In my lifetime, women have been conditioned to accept such behaviour.
In the very early days after she died, I felt guilty for not getting her to report it. I felt it was my fault. "But now I’ve come to realise I didn’t tell her to do so because I didn’t know better.
” Like Relowicz, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 27 years before he will be eligible for parole, Metropolitan Police Officer Wayne Couzens , who raped and mur.
