Judge condemns “brutal” murderer of Ela Kinczyk

A jury at Warwick Crown Court today (Friday) took a little over four hours to find the 26-year-old guilty of the murder of the young woman on June 6 last year.

He had met Mrs Kinczyk, known to her friends as Ela, outside the Rangemaster factory in south Leamington, apparently to discuss his own failed relationship with his partner.

Her body was found badly decomposed in a field near Chesterton Windmill 11 days later. She had been raped and beaten to death.

But despite closed circuit television pictures showing Moczulski driving away with his victim in the passenger seat of his car, he always denied this. Insisting the police had faked the images, he claimed the only person in the car with him was his son.

Having displayed no emotion throughout the trial, Moczulski remained impassive as the verdict was read out.

Sentencing him to a minimum of 32 years, Judge the Hon Mrs Justice Dame Julia Macur told Moczulski he had behaved “most brutally” towards her, even though she had both babysat for him and agreed to meet him to discuss the break-up.

She said the nature of Mrs Kinczyk’s injuries showed he had carried out a “sustained” attack on his victim, inflicting eight blows to her face and head, stoving in her skull, and that Mrs Kinczyk had been sexually assaulted before her death.

Judge Macur told him: “It can only be that you raped her and no doubt killed her so she could not report that to the authorities or to your partner.”

Adding that he had concealed her body in a field of oilseed rape, where it was subject to further “desecration” in the hot summer weather, she said: “Her family had no hope of being able to identify their loved one or otherwise lay her to rest with a picture in their minds of how she was.”

Moczulski appeared to aid the investigation by accompanying his partner Ewelina as she tried to help Mrs Kinczyk’s family, who had called in a clairvoyant to trace her - a fact Judge Macur described as “callous”.

Noting that he had shown no remorse, the Judge added that the attack was “brutal” and the nature of his detection - a tracking device on his car as he returned to the scene with a spade - showed he was preparing to conceal her body.

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