By Libby Squire’s mum meets with PM to discuss sex offender sentences
The mother of a Hull university student who was raped and murdered met with the prime minister to discuss longer sentences for sex offenders.
Libby Squire, originally from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, was on a night out in 2019 when she was abducted and killed by Pawel Relowicz.
Relowicz, who was jailed last year, had previous convictions for voyeurism, performing sex acts in public, and stealing underwear from women’s homes.
Relowicz’s trial heard how he had driven around the streets of Hull before spotting the 21-year-old student.
He then took her to secluded playing fields, where he attacked her and put her body into the River Hull on 1 February 2019.
Libby’s disappearance sparked a widespread seach by police and the public until her remains were sadly spotted by a fisherman in the Humber Estuary seven weeks later.
The 26-year-old was jailed for a minimum of 27 years.
Now, Libby’s mother Lisa Squire is campaigning for tougher measures for similar sexual offences.
Mrs Squire raised the discrepancy between the sentence given to her daughter’s killer and the whole-life sentence given to Met police officer Wayne Couzens for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
She said the prime minister said he “couldn’t understand why the sentences were different” and told her the government was looking into sentencing guidelines.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Mrs Squire said she still hoped to meet with Relowicz in prison.
“It’s more about being in the same space as the person who was last with my daughter,” she said.
“I would love for him to tell me how she died, but I’m under no illusion that he probably won’t tell me that.
“I will never forgive him for what he’s done but it would go a long way just to knowing those last few minutes and just piecing the whole jigsaw together.”
