A butcher has been found guilty of raping and murdering university student Libby Squire.
Pawel Relowicz, 26, raped the 21-year-old on a playing field before dumping her in the River Hull, a jury heard.
Ms Squire went missing after a night out on February 1 2019, and her body was found almost seven weeks later in the Humber Estuary.
Relowicz was found guilty of rape unanimously by a jury of five men and seven women and guilty of murder on a majority of 11 to one.
At Sheffield Crown Court, judge Mrs Justice Lambert said he will be sentenced on Friday.
Father-of-two Relowicz, who was found to have committed a series of strange and frightening sex offences after he was arrested, picked up the second year philosophy student as she wandered around Beverley Road, Hull, in a confused, upset and drunken state in freezing conditions.
The jury had heard a mass of circumstantial evidence linking Relowicz to Ms Squire’s disappearance, despite pathologists being unable to determine how she died.
The court heard that Libby had been on a night out when she was separated from friends and encountered Relowicz.
Relowicz told the jury he did not kill Ms Squire and said he had consensual sex with her on Oak Road.
The defendant has admitted a series of what his barrister called “utterly disgusting” sexual offences in the months before that night, and he admitted he watched porn and masturbated in the street in the hours after he said he had sex with the student.
Oliver Saxby QC, defending, said there was no evidence that Relowicz had killed her.
Speaking through an interpreter, Polish-born Relowicz told the court he was driving around Hull on the evening of Ms Squire’s disappearance because he was “looking for a woman to have easy sex”.
The defendant - who has convictions for outraging public decency, voyeurism and sexually motivated burglaries - said he parked on Haworth Street with the intention of looking through windows and masturbating.
He told the court he left Ms Squire on Oak Road to walk home and she was alive. A pathologist told the court he could not determine the cause of Ms Squire’s death due to the amount of time she had been in the water.
Pawel Relowicz invented a “web of lies” after taking advantage of Libby Squire’s “vulnerable and distressed” state, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
In a statement, Gerry Wareham, of the CPS, said: “Relowicz robbed a young and vibrant woman of her life and her future. His actions have left her family and friends devastated.
“Relowicz invented a web of lies to explain his actions that night, insisting throughout that he had tried to help Libby find her way home.
“Nothing could be further from the truth. Far from being a good Samaritan, Relowicz preyed upon her, he took advantage of her vulnerable and distressed state and then he raped and murdered her.
“I cannot begin to imagine the suffering Libby’s family are enduring. I can only hope that today’s verdict can bring them some measure of comfort. Our thoughts remain with them.”
