Child sex offender tried to arrange for victim's murder to look like suicide
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Version 0 of 1. A prisoner on remand for child sex offences tried to arrange for his teenage victim to be murdered in a way that looked like suicide, a court has heard. Andrew Storey Kapczynski, 62, last year offered an undercover police operative $50,000 to kill the girl while he was on remand in Long Bay jail for sex offences against her, Sydney’s district court heard. Summarising the agreed facts, Judge Andrew Haesler said Kapczynski’s cellmate had alerted authorities after Kapczynski told him he wanted the teenager dead. Police sent in an undercover operative, who was given instructions by Kapczynski and descriptions of the girl and her family. He wanted the operative to fabricate text messages to make it appear as if the girl had ended her own life after concocting false allegations. “He was specific. He wanted [the girl] dead. He wanted it to look like suicide,” Haesler told the court on Monday. Kapczynski pleaded guilty on 10 February to one count of soliciting murder and three counts of sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl who was under his authority. The offences occurred in 2014 when the victim undertook work experience at a south coast NSW business where Kapczynski was a manager. The girl told police Kapczynski had threatened to kill her if she came forward. In a victim statement submitted in evidence, she wrote that she had been scarred by the events, and, after hearing of the kill plot, had felt “terrified” and “fearful of everyone/thing around me”. Kapczynski was sentenced to 12 years’ prison, with a minimum of eight years to be served behind bars. He held his head in his hands during the hearing. He had shown a “callous disregard” for the child victim, and had been motivated by a selfish desire to avoid punishment, Haesler said. “It’s something seriously wrong to contemplate that a young child should be killed for his own selfish purposes,” the judge said. |