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Subscribe to RSSLONDON -- A Polish woman has told a British jury how she used her engagement ring to free herself after her boyfriend tried to bury her alive.
Michelina Lewandowska, 27, accuses her partner of attacking her with a Taser at their home, binding her with tape, and then putting her in a cardboard box that he buried in the woods.
Her partner, 25-year-old Marcin Kasprzak, is on trial with another man charged with attempted murder.
"He was putting the soil on top of me. I wanted to reply. I wanted to put my two fingers through the hole but I was afraid if he could see it he may break my fingers with the shovel," she testified Tuesday, according to BBC News.
Lewandowska testified she used her three-stone ring to cut the tape from her legs, then tore apart the box, which she said was buried in about 10 centimeters (4 inches) of soil.
Lewandowska told the court through an interpreter: "I cut the tape from my legs with this ring. I put the ring back on my finger then I put my whole hand through the opening," according to The Sun.
She said she managed to escape and flagged down a passing car that took her home.
Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp told the court on Monday that Kasprzak was "bored" of his girlfriend and "he decided to get rid of her," according to The Sun.
Both men deny attempted murder.
The trial at Leeds Crown Court was adjourned until Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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OMGosh! What is the matter with some people?!?! Are you serious?!?!
Anyone remember that song that went like; I used to love her so I had to kill her.
Hooker? Trying to be funny. It failed.
I remember when I was six. We played on Horses made of stix. He wore black and I wore white. He would always when the fight. BANG BANG! He shot me down. Bang BANG I hit the ground. Bang BANG... My baby shot me down.
Kill Bill.
Cheers
LOL...."he would always WHEN the fight" are you serious. Maybe he would always WIN the fight.
In other news, a man on trial for burying his fiance alive was attacked in the courtroom by the very person he buried.
Michelina Lewendowska leapt across the defendant's table and began beating Marcin Kasprzak, the defendant, senseless after learning that the diamonds in her engagement ring were fake. She was prompted to have the ring appraised after wondering why he didn't remove it before he buried her.
"He tries to murder me AND the ring is fake?" Ms. Lewendowska wondered aloud as she left the court room. "Is nothing sacred?"
(But seriously, I'm glad she was able to escape her predicament.)
yeah, i know... what's wrong with these people? burrying a 3 stones engagement ring. :P
Joejibblets...
That song is actually about a dog. Axyl Rose had to put down his favorite pit-bull. He wrote it about that hard time in his life.
I miss my dog Sadie more than most people I meet.
I also would never try to kill a woman because I wanted to break up...Just go find someone else...Even Paul Mc Cartney knows its better to split up the assets and move on...LOL...You still have your freedom.
He will find that he may be the girl now...Most convicts abhor crimes against women. DOH!
Peace
You know what is really funny, a girl from Jersey who gets offended at dead hooker jokes.
Why the hell didn't I think of that?
She said she managed to escape and flagged down a passing car that took her home.
^^^
WTF! you went home and not to the police. is thos woman stupid or what? If your spouse tried to bury you alive, the last thing you would want to do is go back home. after flagging down a car, have them take you to the police.
I don't know, but something doesn't seem right with this story. Maybe she is upset because she was left for a younger woman, and creating a story to have her man arrested, but if someone tries to bury you alive, once freed, you go directly to the police, not home.
So, any of u wondering about that age old delemma,,, should I keep the ring or give it back? It may very well save your life. Either by freeing u from a predicament or preventing a bad situation by shoving it down his sorry throat and choking him to death with it. (:
If he breaks up with a girl by trying to murder her, I wonder... does he try to blow up his place of employment when he decides he needs a new job? When it's time for a new car, does the old one get the Mythbusters super-explosion treatment? I guess when he grew up and decided it was time to get a place of his own, he took a wrecking ball to his childhood home.
The logic that fuels the brains of some people is quite hard to grasp.
I remember back when I was a kid we had had to walk to school uphill both ways.....and it took at least 12" of dirt to bury someone....man this last generation is lazy!
Seriously though, they dug a hole big enough to put a box containing a person in, and they could only come up with 4" of dirt to cover it? The math doesn't add up.....
She was lucky in so many ways... but she was also quite smart.
True.
In other reports it said her rings were cubic zirconia. Her boyfriend told Lewandowsk that they were diamonds.
Im not getting this... he tries to kill her but gives her a diamond ring. makes no sense.
What ever happened to "I just don't want to be with you anymore"... Some people are just so STUPID!
I totally agree. Why is it that people feel like they have to resort to murder? (Granted in this case, the victim lived.) It seems like there are all sorts of stories where someone kills a lover, a spouse, a child... and then in some cases, commits suicide after. In this case the perpetrator just walked away. Sure, I've been angry at people- an ex, a boss, even friends or family, but never so much that I thought that killing them was an answer. In general, walking away and never talking to that person again (if necessary) works just fine. How does killing some one (or yourself, kids, others) to end a relationship make sense? Hmmm, break up with my lover or kill her and face going to jail for the rest of my life? (I'm guessing that morals/guilt doesn't play a part in the decision making.) Clearly, we have some maladjusted people walking around on this earth. Lucky for this woman that she was in a relationship with one not smart enough to bury her very deep (or maybe he was just plain lazy?). Certainly, if it came to this, wouldn't there have been some previous sign that maybe this was not a healthy relationship? Good for her that she got out and lived.
Stupid isn't the word. "Insane" is a better one, or even "evil". This one is right out of a story from Hell. This guy and his friend shouldn't be able to walk around with other people in public. Their elevator doesn't go to the top. Glad they don't live in my neighborhood. We already have enough nuts! I hope they put them in jail and forget where the key is! Or, a straight jacket would work too.
I guess some people can't pick up on social queues. The last time someone bound me with tape and burried me I got the message that it was over... They both obviously need help.
How do you bury someone in 4 inches below the surface and then decide that's a thorough enough job?
Still must have been scary though...
I know. You'd think he'd kill her first, then bury her. Even a child could escape from 4" under cardboard.
Remember, she's Polish...
mathuin, these blogs are for adults, not 8 year olds. Of course, if you really are an adult, you are one sick puppy.
tiredofhypocrites - It was just a joke by mathuin. I am 1/2 Polish and it made me laugh. Lots of serious stuff in the world. Don't sweat the little stuff.
P.S. don't read cbo's comment below.
In my home town in Kentucky, a local buried his blond wife in 2" of soil...she dug down 1200 feet into an abandoned coal mine...took the elevator out...amazing story!!!!!
Why are you guys upset about polish??? Everyone needs their shoes shined every now and then.
They WERE polish....
Let me see, he binds her up with tape, puts her in a cardboard box, and then puts the box in a very shallow grave. "She said she managed to escape and flagged down a passing car that took her home." I think my first stop would have been the local police department.
Thank goodness, she had a stupid boyfriend.
remember the boyfriend was polish. L.O.L.
He must have put her face down and thought she would never dig out of that.
If this is true, and I would think it could be verified by the evidence, then these men need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law... burying them alive seems just punishment.
On a side note, I guess a diamond really is forever!
Stupidity is STILL not against the law. It's just what you do with stupidity.
Four inches? Talk about a bunch of lazy diggers.
tigerknee-
I gotcha.... I'm sure no one else will, but i did. Right on.
Maybe he used his "member" to measure the hole depth
How can you call the Duggers lazy??? Oh, you said diggers...
Uh, folks, I think it is winter in Poland. Maybe, they couldn't dig much because the ground was frozen. I don't know--but the effort was worth a lot of prison time in my book.
Good Lord, if you don't want to be with someone then just leave. What a depraved sicko. Hope he's put away.
Talk about Diamonds Being a Girls Best Friend!
Good one Robyn!! Good thing she didn't throw the ring at his face, at one time or another when she was pissed off, like alot of young Women do....
EXACTLY what i thought when i read this!!!
cbo and a backhoe. Joking aside, I'll bet being buried alive is on everybodies list of top 5 nightmares. Wouldn't be itbe funny if he was the one that gave her the ring!!!
It was her engagement ring. He was the one that gave it to her more than likely.
When did "I think we should see other people" go out of style? This is one of those stories you can hardly believe really happened.....
Nope. I can believe it. Happens all the time, except worse. Every week, there's at least one local news story, as well as a national story, of a man killing his wife or girlfriend... or both. Then you have those men who kill their girlfriend's young children. The stories have become all too common. It's really hard to trust men these days.
You forgot to add the story were the woman threw her son out the window and stabbed her daughter to death.
Yeah MyComments because we NEVER read stories of crazed mothers who kill their own children; or new mothers who abandon their newborns in trash dumpsters; or crazy ex-girlfriends/wives that stalk their ex-beaus; or Black Widows; or....; need I go on you myopic man hater?
Apparently you have had bad experiences/bad luck with men in your life. My suggestion to you: instead of channeling your energies into hatred of men, why don't you look in the mirror and see why you have a trust issue with men. That is, if you have even had a successful relationship with one at all. There are as many crazy men out there as crazy women, and depending on the time of the month, that number sways in favor of the women!
If by "men" you mean mankind, then yes. If by "men" you mean males, then you are wrong. For example, there was just a recent shooting in NC by a WOMAN (Mary Ann Holder) who shot her married lover, her 2 sons, her niece and nephew (whom she had custody of), her son's girl friend, then finally- herself. Only the lover survived. There was also another mom (LaShanda Armstrong) last April that drove her van filled with her 4 children into the Hudson River, drowning herself and all but 1 of her children who managed to make it out of the vehicle. She did this after some sort of altercation with the father of the children. It's not one gender or another that's to blame- it's human emotion and a lack of sanity at that moment imo.
mycomentsandsuch
do i need to remind you of andrea yates and the many other women who have been in the news the last few years? maybe you women cant be trusted either. or better yet maybe you just cant trust stupid people who only care about themselves.
MyCommentsandSuch
was not the one that sounded a bit off or the hater of the opposite sex
How many Polish guys does it take to bury a woman alive? ... Apparently more than two. (Sorry, I couldn't resist-I honestly don't think all Polish people are stupid) I'm glad that they did such a horrible job and she was able to escape!
It makes me wonder if he meant it as a practical joke. Even so, he's a *#@&#$*! for doing that.
God was in that grave with you. You are still here for a higher purpose. Think about that!!!!
Yes, higher purpose is to buy a bigger diamond ring in case she get's buried 8"... are you serious?? 14,700,000 children under the age of 5 die a brutal death from starvation every year world wide... so much for your god who likes 27 yr old hot chicks....
Yes, higher purpose is to buy a bigger diamond ring in case she get's buried 8"... are you serious?? 14,700,000 children under the age of 5 die a brutal death from starvation every year world wide... so much for your god who likes 27 yr old hot chicks....
Quit it, both of you. Should an innocent person EVER be allowed to die?
The biggest problem with atheists is they keep trying to force their own religion of atheism on everyone.
Atheism a religion? LOL! If it's a religion, then health is a disease! And as if we're the ones shoving/brainwashing children w/ your religion (CHRISTIANITY)
Atheism is a worldview, just as Christianity and other religions are worldviews. That is what Rikkio meant. One person (in this case, an Atheist) is trying to shove his/her worldview on other people. Yes, it happens all the time.
The comment was about God being with the woman in the grave and a higher purpose. The response was from someone who doesn't buy into it. I'm confused, which one is shoving his/her beliefs on other people?
Sorry...I have to take silvercc's side on this one. For starters, everyone is entitled to express his or/Her own beliefs. That is the purpose of this forum. Everyone has their "Crosses to Bear." And, when I think of Horrible things going on in the world---Children dying of cancer is at the very Top of MY LIST!!!! This was not god at work. it was, thankfully, another Stupid Man's Handy Work!!
Actually, Rikkio, the biggest drawback to being an atheist is that there's no one to talk to during sex.
Atheism is a non-prophet religion.
Did it really take God to move 4" of dirt?
Why don't you all stop being insecure about what you believe *cough*silvercc and jofletch* cough* and let a person wish someone well, huh?
Actually if you bury someone in a shallow grave the decompose faster than if in a deep grave.
Just not to shallow as to attract scavengers.
Not that I have done this before but i have a small interest in forensic anthropology.
Awful. Hideous. He "got tired of her"?? My husband and I have been together for twenty-five years and there have been "moments" but...These two are sociopaths.
This is good to know. Exactly how many inches is the ideal depth: decomposing but not being eaten?
Thank you for the tip.
Maybe she couldn't cook
Did he think she was dead or did he bury her alive thinking she will die in the box, 4 inches n still alive was it day or night time? Something don't seem right but will make an interesting movie plot.
That's what you call thinking out of the box. Sorry couldn't resist.
Smart woman, well made ring...... Hope she will be okay and these guys get put away.
What a lazy SOB. Only 4 inches of dirt? And she was still alive as well? Seriously, killers today...
William-2831665; LOL
It's possible that her ex is telling the truth when he says he wasn't trying to kill her. After all, 4" of dirt? he almost had to know that all she had to do to get out was stand up.
On the other hand, you never want to underestimate the power of stupidity. It is the 2cd most common substance in the universe after all.
How does one stand up while in a box?
Depends on the shape and size of the box. Since she escaped with no help (other than her ring), I just figured she must have been able to stand up, pushing her way through the 4" of dirt.
and the first being feces.
Actually, the order of most common substances in the universe is: Hydrogen, Stupidity, and T.I.E. Fighter components. (bit of a Star Wars joke there).
Lucky that he didn't think to take the ring back.
Sadistic bastard. I guess she was too much woman for him.
Lucy may be in the sky with diamonds but the lady sunken in 4 inches of soil was not lucy and was definately land bound, and though her dreams may have been in the sky she was not there....the diamond that she felt pride over could have betrayed her and refused to help her with her brave escape, but it seen the twinkle in her eye that reminded him of when he was a lump of coal, and the dreams and aspirations that he had, so he whispered into her ear and said "lets do this" and then the tape cutting began, and commenced until the pair were free of harms way....the lady and diamond recieved freedom, but the boyfriend and his accomplis will recieve imprisonment for a period of time not to exceed the reccommended amount allotted by laws of the land in which they call home....surely there was thanks given unto God even though the silver tongued Critter Creation feels aloof..all one can say is dibbity bibitty bop and a foop doop eeee doop.
Gold Can ,You are Entertaining , I would hope your avenue is writing... Blessings for 2012.
Trippy, man.
Sooo lazy.
There are some really dumb sonsabitches in the world today!
I just hope there courts are not as loving to the criminal as they are here.
They aren't.
Just wait - the guy will probably ask for the engagement ring back since the wedding is most likely called off..
Duh! ya think.