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Man found guilty of the kidnap and murder of his former Polish girlfriend


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peterweg
Edited by: peterweg  May 1, 08, 11:48  #1

Ex-lover guilty of fireball death

A 27-year-old man has been found guilty of the kidnap and murder of his former girlfriend, who died after being stabbed and set alight.

Monika Szmecht, 21, was able to crawl for help and identify her attacker as Anthony Clarke before she died, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

Miss Szmecht, originally from Kloda, Poland, was stabbed six times and set alight in revenge for her attempt to blackmail her former boyfriend, the jury was told.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/merseyside/7377343.stm


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BubbaWoo
  May 1, 08, 11:54  #2

peterweg:
Monika Szmecht, 21, was able to crawl for help and identify her attacker


good

peterweg:
Anthony Clarke


sick fuk

peterweg:
her attempt to blackmail her former boyfriend


yeah, whats that all about?

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osiol
Edited by: osiol  May 1, 08, 11:59  #3

BubbaWoo:
yeah, whats that all about?

That might be referring to the £1000 she had asked off him so she wouldn't press charges against him for a previous incident.

Despite how sick this individual looks from what you read at the top of this thread, it gets worse. He even planned to have his aunt shot when his uncle decided to give evidence.

BubbaWoo:
sick fuk

Well said. I hope he rots in his cell.


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PinkJewel
  May 1, 08, 12:02  #4

Let's hope for a good long sentence and get this animal off the street for a long time. Seems like the kind of guy who was always destined for jail.

Good on Monika for identifying this sicko.


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BubbaWoo
  May 1, 08, 12:06  #5

what on earth was she thinking by trying to blackmail the guy for the grand?

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PinkJewel
  May 1, 08, 12:20  #6

According to the article he was violent to her, she told the police and then demanded a grand from him to retract her story. That's how the media present it anyway.


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peterweg
  May 1, 08, 12:24  #7

BubbaWoo:
what on earth was she thinking by trying to blackmail the guy for the grand?


Especially as she knew he was violent. Dangerous game, blackmail.


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BubbaWoo
Edited by: BubbaWoo  May 1, 08, 12:26  #8

my point is that it was a pretty stupid thing to do.

peterweg:
Especially as she knew he was violent. Dangerous game, blackmail.


exactly. idiotic

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PinkJewel
  May 1, 08, 12:31  #9

BubbaWoo:
my point is that it was a pretty stupid thing to do.


Yes it was. Although, maybe in her mind she thought if she could get the £1000 it would be enough money to get away from him for good. Who knows?


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BubbaWoo
  May 1, 08, 12:34  #10

PinkJewel:
Although, maybe in her mind she thought if she could get the £1000 it would be enough money to get away from him for good. Who knows?


maybe.

poor girl

RIP

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Seanus
  May 1, 08, 12:40  #11

Too many toxic relationships. I count my lucky stars that I'm 'wired up' right. Not in the Ozzy Osbourne sense u understand.

I agree BW, blackmail is a dangerous game. I don't speak ill of the dead too often but greedily trying to claim that grand was a bad mistake, a dear and costly one.


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BubbaWoo
  May 1, 08, 12:56  #12

Seanus:
I don't speak ill of the dead too often but greedily trying to claim that grand was a bad mistake, a dear and costly one.


my thoughts exactly.

unfortunately there still remains the belief amongst certain elements of the british population that we didnt build our empire by letting foreigners take the p!ss out of us

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Seanus
  May 1, 08, 13:01  #13

True that. Brits will always have this sense of pride and rejection of pish taking (sorry, had to use the Sean Connery version)


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peterweg
  May 1, 08, 13:44  #14

BubbaWoo:
unfortunately there still remains the belief amongst certain elements of the british population that we didnt build our empire by letting foreigners take the p!ss out of us



Don't detract from the fact that the guy is obviously a psychopath.

>>Although, maybe in her mind she thought if she could get the £1000 it would be enough money to get away from him for good. Who knows?

Blackmail is Blackmail regardless of the amount involved. Its a serious crime and a very dangerous one.


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BubbaWoo
  May 1, 08, 13:50  #15

peterweg:
Don't detract from the fact that the guy is obviously a psychopath.


yeah, and a scouser

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peterweg
  May 1, 08, 13:57  #16

BubbaWoo:
yeah, and a scouser


Which is worse, of course.


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BubbaWoo
  May 1, 08, 13:57  #17

goes without saying

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PinkJewel
  May 1, 08, 14:07  #18

peterweg:
Don't detract from the fact that the guy is obviously a psychopath.


Very true.

peterweg:

>>Although, maybe in her mind she thought if she could get the £1000 it would be enough money to get away from him for good. Who knows?

Blackmail is Blackmail regardless of the amount involved. Its a serious crime and a very dangerous one.


Yes of course it's a serious crime and I don't condone her attempts at blackmail, I just wonder at what caused her to try it. Some people do it out of badness, some out of desperation.

Like you say, it a dangerous crime as this story indeed proves.


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LondonChick
  May 1, 08, 14:15  #19

A very sad chain of events. RIP.


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peterweg
  May 1, 08, 14:48  #20

PinkJewel:
Yes of course it's a serious crime and I don't condone her attempts at blackmail, I just wonder at what caused her to try it. Some people do it out of badness, some out of desperation.


Naivety, apparently. Blackmail is akin to sticking a knife in someone neck and demanding money. Some people will pay, others will fight very, very hard for their life.

She obviously didn't understand the risk.


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LondonChick
  May 1, 08, 14:58  #21

peterweg:
She obviously didn't understand the risk.


She was only 21. I'd like to think that I've always been pretty streetwise, but even I made a lot of mistakes at that age.


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wildrover
  May 1, 08, 15:10  #22

I don,t condone violence , but a slap round the head might have been more appropriate than sticking a knife in the girl and setting her on fire,,,the guy is a nutter....a sad end to a young life.......I will never understand why women hang around guys like this...one slap and its time to be gone.....


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peterweg
  May 2, 08, 06:50  #23

LondonChick:
She was only 21. I'd like to think that I've always been pretty streetwise, but even I made a lot of mistakes at that age.


People should realise that blackmail is a a crime just below murder and akin to kidnapping. Getting involved with it, means you are descending to the law of the jungle. He might have been facing 5-10 years in jail and there is always the risk that the blackmailer would come back for more.

Sure she was young, but there are many obvious dangers that any adult should avoid - walking in front of train, jumping off cliffs, playing Russian roulette.

wildrover:
I don,t condone violence , but a slap round the head might have been more appropriate than sticking a knife in the girl and setting her on fire,,,


Slapping her was the cause of the whole situation. In fact there is only two ways of stopping a kidnapper, calling the police and what happened here. Obviously he had reason to doubt the police would help.


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