Elzbieta Kinczyk murder: Defendant found guilty

Ms Kinczyk, of Northway, Leamington, who was better known as Ela, went missing on June 6 last year, having met Moczulski in his car outside the Rangemaster factory in Grove Place.

Her badly decomposed body was found in a field off Windmill Hill Lane near Chesterton Windmill ten days later.

She had been raped and clubbed to death.

Moczulski, 26, of Newgale Walk, Sydenham had claimed CCTV footage of him driving off with Ela as a passenger had been fabricated.

He had also claimed he had visited places near where her body was found because he was looking for somewhere to commit suicide and that he had taken a spade with him to dig a grave for himself.

After he was first arrested on suspicion of Ela’s murder Moczulski was placed under covert surveillance by police and a hidden tracking device was attached to his car.

They traced his movements near to the field where the body was later discovered.

After his second arrest officers found a number of items in bushes near the defendant’s house.

These included a metal bar, heavy duty gloves and black bin liners cut down one side to make sheets.

Moczulski had said he was going to use the items when buying cheap diesel and that he had taken the bar from his place of work to be used for self defence against Ela’s brother-in-law.

A pollen expert also found evidence the defendant had been in a field with rapeseed and nettles before both of his arrests.

Moczulski will serve a minimum of 32 years in prison before he is eligible for parole.

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