Ealing murder: Obsessive ex-boyfriend jailed for murdering woman

An obsessive ex-boyfriend who stabbed a young pistillate 40 times successful a "ferocious" ambush successful westbound London has been jailed for beingness and indispensable service a minimum of 29 years.

Dennis Akpomedaye, 30, murdered Polish pupil Anna Jedrkowiak, 21, successful an alleyway successful Ealing, successful May past year.

Kingston Crown Court heard she had antecedently ended their narration to determination to London for a caller life.

Akpomedaye, of Newport, southbound Wales, had tracked down Ms Jedrkowiak.

Wearing a balaclava and with his hood up, helium waited for Ms Jedrkowiak, known arsenic Ania, to decorativeness her displacement astatine a section edifice earlier pursuing her and a young antheral she was adjacent to, Jack Maskell, who witnessed the murder.

The assemblage heard Akpomedaye past tried to decapitate Ms Jedrkowiak arsenic helium repeatedly stabbed her.

Mr Maskell, 21, who worked astatine the aforesaid edifice and had been walking with Ms Jedrkowiak, told the tribunal helium had been near with "indescribable memories that tin ne'er been erased".

"It was acheronian and cruel. I volition ne'er unsee what helium did to her."

Mr Maskell said seeing the sidesplitting had near him with "significant affectional problems", specified arsenic post-traumatic accent upset and depression.

Ms Jedrkowiak's mother, Danuta, who lives successful Poland, said successful a connection work to the court: "He, this murderer, is inactive live and volition beryllium for galore much years, contempt the information helium took my daughter's life."

She said the "barbaric" mode her girl died meant her bosom "broke with grief and despair".

Speaking extracurricular court, Ms Jedrkowiak's sister, Katareyna Glowacka, 39, who lives successful the UK, said Akpomedaye was a "proper coward" due to the fact that helium did not be his sentencing.

"He committed a transgression but helium is not capable to look us, he's not capable to look america successful the eyes."

Judge Rajeev Shetty, jailing Akpomedaye, said the onslaught was "ferocious and savage".

He said: "There is nary mitigation here. There is nary grounds of a intelligence upset oregon disability."

The proceedings heard Akpomedaye utilized a bizarre screen communicative for the killing, saying helium was a sword performer whose instrumentality had gone wrong.

However, helium had near a way of humor from the scene, starring detectives to a pond successful Gunnersby Park, wherever helium had dumped items helium had stolen from Ms Jedrkowiak.

Using CCTV footage, forensic grounds and telephone analysis, Metropolitan Police officers managed to apprehension him wrong 22 hours of Ms Jedrkowiak's murder.

He was caught astatine Victoria manager presumption trying to instrumentality location to Newport.

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