Marv
December 6th, 2011, 05:00 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070665/Michelina-Lewandowska-Buried-alive-woman-says-Marcin-Kasprzak-told-hated-her.html
A woman who was buried alive in a cardboard box today told a jury how she used her engagement ring to free herself.
Michelina Lewandowska, 27, told Leeds Crown Court that she prayed to God as she struggled to release herself after allegedly being placed in the box by her partner.
Marcin Kasprzak, 25, with whom she has a three-year-old son, is on trial with another man Patryk Borys, 18. Both are charged with attempted murder.
The court was told how Ms Lewandowska was placed in the boot of a car by the two men and driven to a wooded area near Huddersfield where the box was buried in a shallow grave with a tree branch placed on top.
However she managed to escape and flagged down a passing motorist.
[...]
Earlier Ms Lewandowska told how she was allegedly attacked with a Taser and bound and gagged by her partner, who told her he hated her.
She told the court she feared she was going to pass out as she was attacked with the 300,000-volt stun gun in the home she shared with fellow Pole Marcin Kasprzak.
Speaking from behind a screen, Miss Lewandowska told the jury she was grabbed by her partner as she came out of the bathroom and forced to the floor on May 28 this year.
She said she thought all three of them were going shopping but instead found herself on the floor with hands holding her down by her neck. She described a sensation of being 'kicked' as the Taser was applied to her neck.
[...]
She described how her partner then knelt down and said he had 'hated me for four years'.
She also told how her partner mentioned a 'secret house' and how she was not going to see him or her son again.
[...]
Yesterday, Jonathan Sharp prosecuting said: 'In a nutshell, this case is about a young man who got bored with his partner, the mother of his child, and he decided to get rid of her.'
The court was told Kasprzak thought she was not as pretty as girls he saw at the gym and was 'bored' with her.
It heard she was put in the boot of a car, driven to a wooded area and buried in a ‘shallow grave’.
Kasprzak and Borys then allegedly used shovels to pile soil on the old computer box - which had just two air holes and was just 22ins deep - and then put a tree branch weighing more than six stone on top of it.
[...]
They ‘simply left her there’ and drove to a supermarket cash-point where they used her bank cards to withdraw £500 of her money.
Over the next hour their victim, ‘with great difficulty’, managed to get out of the box and escape from the makeshift grave.
[...]
The court heard that Miss Lewandowska and Kasprzak – who met six years ago in their native Poland before moving to work in England – have a three-year-old son, Jakub.
He would go out with friends, sometimes staying out all night, rather than spending time with her.
He allegedly wanted her removed from the scene so he could look after Jakub without her and pursue a relationship with another girlfriend.
The court was also told that Kasprzak had changed his Facebook status to ‘single’ about two weeks before the attack and developed a plan of killing his partner, recruiting Borys to help.
Kasprzak and Borys, both from Huddersfield, both deny attempted murder this year.
The case continues.
http://i40.tinypic.com/2m01vd.jpg
Patryk Borys
No picture of Kasprzak as yet.
A woman who was buried alive in a cardboard box today told a jury how she used her engagement ring to free herself.
Michelina Lewandowska, 27, told Leeds Crown Court that she prayed to God as she struggled to release herself after allegedly being placed in the box by her partner.
Marcin Kasprzak, 25, with whom she has a three-year-old son, is on trial with another man Patryk Borys, 18. Both are charged with attempted murder.
The court was told how Ms Lewandowska was placed in the boot of a car by the two men and driven to a wooded area near Huddersfield where the box was buried in a shallow grave with a tree branch placed on top.
However she managed to escape and flagged down a passing motorist.
[...]
Earlier Ms Lewandowska told how she was allegedly attacked with a Taser and bound and gagged by her partner, who told her he hated her.
She told the court she feared she was going to pass out as she was attacked with the 300,000-volt stun gun in the home she shared with fellow Pole Marcin Kasprzak.
Speaking from behind a screen, Miss Lewandowska told the jury she was grabbed by her partner as she came out of the bathroom and forced to the floor on May 28 this year.
She said she thought all three of them were going shopping but instead found herself on the floor with hands holding her down by her neck. She described a sensation of being 'kicked' as the Taser was applied to her neck.
[...]
She described how her partner then knelt down and said he had 'hated me for four years'.
She also told how her partner mentioned a 'secret house' and how she was not going to see him or her son again.
[...]
Yesterday, Jonathan Sharp prosecuting said: 'In a nutshell, this case is about a young man who got bored with his partner, the mother of his child, and he decided to get rid of her.'
The court was told Kasprzak thought she was not as pretty as girls he saw at the gym and was 'bored' with her.
It heard she was put in the boot of a car, driven to a wooded area and buried in a ‘shallow grave’.
Kasprzak and Borys then allegedly used shovels to pile soil on the old computer box - which had just two air holes and was just 22ins deep - and then put a tree branch weighing more than six stone on top of it.
[...]
They ‘simply left her there’ and drove to a supermarket cash-point where they used her bank cards to withdraw £500 of her money.
Over the next hour their victim, ‘with great difficulty’, managed to get out of the box and escape from the makeshift grave.
[...]
The court heard that Miss Lewandowska and Kasprzak – who met six years ago in their native Poland before moving to work in England – have a three-year-old son, Jakub.
He would go out with friends, sometimes staying out all night, rather than spending time with her.
He allegedly wanted her removed from the scene so he could look after Jakub without her and pursue a relationship with another girlfriend.
The court was also told that Kasprzak had changed his Facebook status to ‘single’ about two weeks before the attack and developed a plan of killing his partner, recruiting Borys to help.
Kasprzak and Borys, both from Huddersfield, both deny attempted murder this year.
The case continues.
http://i40.tinypic.com/2m01vd.jpg
Patryk Borys
No picture of Kasprzak as yet.