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Jun
2

Melinda Korosi

by Jean Calder
15th September 2016

Melinda Korosi (33) was murdered on 15th September 2016 at her home in Orton Road, Carlisle. She was beaten to death with a sharpened rock.

Ms Korosi was an English language teacher. She had two children and was a Hungarian national.

In March 2017, at Carlisle Crown Court, Miklos Verebes (29), Ms Korosi’s former partner and the father of her children, was found guilty of murder and three counts of rape between 2013 and 2016. He was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to serve a minimum of 28 years before he could be considered for parole.

Jurors watched a video of a police interview that Ms Korosi gave six days before her death in which she outlined regular sexual, physical and emotional abuse that she suffered at the hands of Verebes. Verebes had previously been jailed for an assault on Ms Korosi. He was also a Hungarian national.

Verebes murdered his Ms Korosi just two days after he was released without charge after she had reported to police that he had repeatedly raped her.

The Court heard Ms Korosi had already been classed as at high risk of harm following an assessment by an independent domestic violence adviser.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating the contact that Ms Korosi had with Cumbria Constabulary.

Two Cumbria detectives are facing a misconduct inquiry.

An IPCC spokeswoman said: “Based on the evidence collected so far the IPCC investigator has decided there is an indication of misconduct by a detective constable and a detective sergeant at the force. Both officers have been notified. All other officers involved in this case are being treated as witnesses at this time.”

Following Verebes’s convictions, Ms Korosi’s mother Marta Hegyi Csiscman said she loved her daughter with her “whole heart”. She said: “It is very difficult to accept that she is no more, I can never embrace her again and I cannot help her achieve her goals. There are many questions and I don’t know if there will ever be answers to them, I only know that my big daughter of whom I was always proud did not deserve this and she will never be able to tell me what had happened and why. She can never make her dreams come true and cannot raise her children and I can never help her in anything anymore.”

Note: This report was drawn from a report in the Mail Online.

0 Categories : Aggravated or Serial Sexual Assault, Deaths, Deaths in 2016, Domestic killing, Domestic Violence, Immigrant/Visitor Perpetrator, Immigrant/Visitor Victim, IPCC Report or Review, Murder, Police Response, Previous Conviction, Professional Failure, Violence Against Women and Girls
Nov
9

Cerys Yemm

by Jean Calder
Died 6th November 2014

Cerys Yemm (22) from Blackwood was murdered on 6th November 2014 at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel, Argoed, Caerphilly, South Wales.

Ms Yemm was killed by Matthew Williams (34). Security staff at the hotel reportedly found her terribly injured and cannibalised with the killer eating her face.

After the police were called Williams was tasered and died while under arrest. Ms Yemm was later pronounced dead.

Ms Yemm was a popular young woman, a well known shopworker who worked at Next.

It seems she had met Williams in a pub hours before her death where he was heard to offer to get her a taxi home. Williams had been released from prison two weeks earlier after serving less than half of a 5 year sentence for attacking his former partner,
Emma Thomas.

He was it seems not subject to any probation service monitoring, despite the fact his former parter lived close by and could have been at risk.

He had a reputation for violence and there were reports he may have been high on drugs.

Ms Thomas said: “He made my life hell. I’ve had nothing to do with him since we broke up more than two years ago. It is a terrible shock and I’m very sad that this has happened.”

The Sirhowy Arms Hotel is a halfway house for ex-offenders.

Note: This report was drawn from reports in the Daily Mail and the BBC.

FOD Comment:

Ms Yemm’s terrible death is not being investigated by the IPCC, despite the fact that Williams was an unsupervised violent offender and known to be a danger to women. In addition, it seems a single female police officer was sent to this extraordinarily violent incident.

Williams death in police custody is however under investigation by the IPCC.

0 Categories : Deaths, Deaths in 2014, Domestic Violence, IPCC Report or Review, Media Coverage, Multiple Deaths, Murder, Mutilation Desecration, Previous Conviction, Professional Failure, Sadistic Killing, Torture, Young Victims
Jan
10

Lynda Brown

by Jean Calder
Died 1st September 2012

Lynda Brown (63) was stabbed to death on 1st September 2012 at her home in Mannering Road, Shawlands, Glasgow.

Peter Cumming (58), her partner, who lived at the same address, admitted murder and faces a life sentence.

The High Court in Glasgow heard that he had previous convictions for domestic violence against Ms Brown.

Ms Brown worked at Glasgow University’s biochemistry department. She was 5ft 3in tall and weighed eight and a half stones (54kg). She was described as “quiet” and “reserved”.

Advocate depute Andrew Miller, prosecuting, said that a post-mortem examination revealed she had been stabbed four times in the back. The fatal wound went through Ms Brown’s neck severing an artery and causing massive blood loss.

Ms Brown managed to dial 999 before the fatal attack and told the operator: “My partner’s threatening me with a knife.” When police officers arrived at the flat eight minutes later they found Ms Brown lying dead on the bedroom floor with a knife embedded in her back.

It was reported that neighbours also alerted Strathclyde Police about a disturbance at the house. Police and paramedics arrived at the house about 6pm on 1st September.

Local residents said they were “horrified” by her death. One elderly man said: “She was a nice woman and would never walk past you on the street without saying hello. She was a quiet, reserved woman who loved her grandchildren. She seemed happy. No one can believe this has happened. It’s normally such a quiet street. This has shocked everyone.”

Another neighbour said: “Lynda was a lovely woman. She would have done anything for anybody. It is such a terrible tragedy.”

It is believed Ms Brown had lived with Cumming since 2009.

The court heard that Cumming killed Ms Brown before a dinner party with friends Trevor and Rosemary Clarke. He claimed Ms Brown told him that she had already eaten, which he said made him “really angry”. He claimed she “goaded” him. He said: “I was in behind her in the bedroom and I had the knife and I don’t know where it came from I don’t know. I was out of control. It’s just not like me. I am so in control. I need to keep things in control.”

Cumming said he stabbed Ms Brown once while she was standing and then once again as she lay on the ground. The court was told that there were tensions due to his drinking. He had convictions for domestic violence towards Ms Brown.

Judge Lord Bannatyne will sentence Cumming in February 2013.

Note: This report was drawn from reports in the Daily Record and the BBC.

 

 

0 Categories : Deaths, Deaths in 2012, Domestic killing, Domestic Violence, Murder, Older Victim, Previous Conviction
Feb
7

Elizabetta Pecka

by Jean Calder
Died March 2011 

Elizabetta Pecka (95) died two months after being attacked and sexually assaulted on 21st January 2011, in her bedroom at the Bradford nursing home in which she lived. Originally from Slovenia, she was a resident at Rosewood Court nursing home in Shakespeare Close, Berkerend and had gone to bed when her attacker broke into her room.

Scott Sorby (21)attacked Elizabetta Pecka, hitting her at least ten times and leaving her with fractures to her cheekbones, jawbone and eye socket. He dragged her into her bathroom where he also attempted to rape her. It was described as a prolonged and ferocious attack. Prosecutor Adrian Waterman QC told Bradford Crown Court that Ms Pecka had been relatively well and independent before the attack, but never recovered from the trauma and died in hospital two months later.

She was found by a member of staff, kneeling and covered in blood in her bathroom. Her lower clothing was around her ankles. Blood covered the walls and floor. Ms Pecka told medical staff her attacker was an animal who had treated her like a dog. On the way to hospital, she pleaded with paramedics to let her die. She was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary, but her condition “relentlessly and inexorably” worsened. She died from bronchial pneumonia, due to multiple injuries. Medical experts linked her death to the attack.

Sorby, formerly of Binns Lane, Lidget Green, Bradford, was 20 at the time of the attack, living in a probation hostel, and on licence after serving half of a four and a half year jail sentence for the rape and assault of a 20 year old woman student when he was 17. He had broken into a cabin where she was working as a security guard, hit her and tried to rape her. He was freed in October 2012 despite a psychiatrist’s warning that he posed a “very significant and ongoing” risk to women.

Sorby pleaded guilty to the murder and attempted rape of Ms Pecka. The judge, Mr Justice King sentenced Sorby to life imprisonment and said the minimum term he would have to serve before the Parole Board could even consider his release would be 24 years.

The judge said: “I should stress that such a release is by no means automatic. The Parole Board will only order your release if they consider it safe and appropriate to do so and are satisfied that you pose no danger to the public. You are a patently dangerous young man.”

Mr Justice King said the murder was for gain during the course of a burglary and the victim was particularly vulnerable. “You inflicted a significant degree of mental and physical suffering upon her before she died some two months after.” It was a prolonged and ferocious attack and it appeared Sorby had deliberately imprisoned Ms Pecka in her bathroom. He said it appeared he had carried out a search of her bedroom after the physical attack upon her, describing him as a “damaged and dangerous” young man.

Though he claimed to regret his attack on Ms Pecka, Sorby was said to have blamed his actions on his previous female victim. He claimed to have experienced flashbacks to that incident during the attack on Ms Pecka, hurting her because he said he blamed his previous victim for hurting him. Sorby wrote in a letter found in his prison cell: “I thought I was hurting the person who had hurt me. When I came back to reality I was covered in blood. I felt like a monster. In another letter for the probation service, he wrote: “I wanted to keep on hurting her. I kept on hitting her on the head. All I wanted to do was hurt this elderly lady.”

The court heard that when Sorby heard that she had died he smashed up his cell, tied a bedsheet round his neck, cut his arm and daubed messages, some in his own blood, on his cell wall, including “evil bastard.”

Det Supt Dick Nuttall, of West Yorkshire Police, said: “Scott Sorby carried out a brutal and cowardly physical and sexual assault on a vulnerable and defenceless lady of 94 in the very place she felt most safe. Mrs Pecka had been an active lady in relatively good health, but after this attack she never left hospital and it is very clear that Sorby’s actions led to her death.”

Det Supt Nuttall added he hoped Sorby’s sentence would bring some sense of justice to the people who cared for Ms Pecka

Sorby’s defence lawyer, Paul Greaney QC, said Sorby had a severe mixed personality disorder.

Questions have been asked about the decision not to give Sorby an indeterminate sentence when he was sentenced for the earlier sex attack in June 2008. At the time, a psychiatric report concluded Sorby “presents a risk of physical and sexual violence towards females and physical violence towards males”.

Note: This report was compiled from reports in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus; the BBC; and the Daily Mail.

0 Categories : Aggravated or Serial Sexual Assault, Deaths, Deaths in 2011, Murder, Previous Conviction, Sadistic Killing, Sex Killing

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