Murdered student's mum to meet killer in prison

The parent of murdered Hull pupil Libby Squire is to conscionable her daughter's slayer successful prison.

Pawel Relowicz, present 28, was sentenced successful February 2021 to astatine slightest 27 years' imprisonment for the rape and execution of Miss Squire.

The 21-year-old disappeared during a nighttime retired successful Hull successful January 2019. Her assemblage was recovered 7 weeks aboriginal successful the Humber Estuary.

Lisa Squire said: "How did she die? That's my biggest question."

Jurors recovered Relowicz blameworthy of rape unanimously and blameworthy of execution by a bulk verdict of 11 to one.

However, pathologists were incapable to find a origin of decease due to the fact that of the magnitude of clip her assemblage had been successful the water.

Speaking to BBC Look North, Mrs Squire said: "There is simply a full load of questions that spell done my caput connected a regular ground but the biggest 1 is however did she die?"

Father-of-two Relowicz has refused to ain up to his crimes.

Asked whether she thought helium would supply answers to her questions, Mrs Squire replied: "I don't deliberation helium volition yet but who knows, successful years to travel possibly helium will."

Mrs Squire, a neo-natal nurse, revealed her agony astatine not knowing astir her daughter's last moments.

She said: "For me, it's much astir being successful the aforesaid abstraction arsenic the past idiosyncratic who was with my daughter.

"I cognize astir of her friends and she was ever successful interaction with maine truthful I cognize what she was doing successful the morning, the day and the evening. I bash not cognize what happened connected that past time of her life."

Mrs Squire, who lives successful High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, insisted she does not hatred Relowicz.

She said: "I don't really person immoderate feelings towards him.

"I don't hatred him due to the fact that it's not going to get maine anyplace and, for me, choler is precise destructible. It's precise draining and the much clip I walk being aggravated with him the little clip I tin walk reasoning astir Libby, looking aft my different children and doing household things."

Mrs Squire is not convinced her daughter's slayer tin change.

"If idiosyncratic tin bash those things, and the things helium was doing earlier helium raped and killed Libby, past I judge that is successful them," she said.

It emerged during the 14-day proceedings astatine Sheffield Crown Court that Relowicz had prowled the streets of Hull earlier attacking Miss Squire.

Jurors heard Relowicz had erstwhile convictions for voyeurism, performing enactment acts successful nationalist and stealing enactment toys and underwear from women's homes.

He maintained helium had consensual enactment with the pupil and said helium had lied due to the fact that helium did not privation his woman to find retired helium had cheated connected her - claims the assemblage refused to believe.

A day for the meeting, being arranged done a restorative justness charity, has yet to beryllium decided.

"I americium truly grateful that helium has agreed," said Mrs Squire. "It indispensable beryllium rather daunting to conscionable a victim's mother."