Mum of murdered Libby Squire wants to meet her daughter's killer

The mother of Libby Squire, the University student from High Wycombe who was raped and murdered after a night out in Hull on 1st February 2019, has said she wants to meet her daughter’s killer, saying 'she needs to know' what happened to her.

21-year-old Libby was studying at the University of Hull when she was attacked by then 24-year-old Pawel Relowicz, a married father of two.

Relowicz had a string of prior convictions for sexual offences including exposing himself in public, looking through windows and watching women undress and stealing women’s underwear and sex toys from their homes.

CCTV shows Relowicz somehow getting Libby into his car just after midnight, then driving to Oak Road playing fields where he raped her, before putting her into the River Hull, which runs along the north-east side of the park. It’s not clear if she was dead before she entered the water.

Libby’s mother, Lisa Squire, speaking recently to the BBC, described her daughter as, “amazing - she was funny, sarcastic, witty, everything that you’d want in a daughter.”

Mrs Squire says she now wants to meet Relowicz to ascertain what happened to her daughter. She told the BBC: “I don’t know exactly what happened, I don’t know how he got her in the car, I don’t know how she died, I don’t know whether she was dead when she went into the water or not, all these different questions and it’s quite exhausting but that is what goes on in my head 24/7.

“Not knowing what happened to her, just for me is not acceptable. I need to know.”

She added: “Perpetrators should be forced to see their victim’s families if that’s what the victim’s family wants.”

Mrs Squire is also due to meet with the Prime Minister soon to discuss her campaign for tougher measures for people committing non-contact sexual offences.

She said: “People still think non-contact sexual offences are harmless but they’re not harmless.

“We can’t say that all people who commit a non-contact sexual offence are going to go on to become rapists and murderers but I think we can say that most rapist-murderers started off with non-contact sexual offences.

“And I also think these people need help. There should be some sort of help facility for them.”

Reflecting on her daughter’s memory, Mrs Squire said to the BBC: “I want her legacy to be something, a change for women. Because of what happened to her, I want other women to feel, to be safer and I will honour her until I take my last breath.”

Pawel Relowicz was jailed for at least 27 years in February 2021.