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Peterborough car stabbing: Woman, 18, guilty of murdering admirer | Peterborough car stabbing: Woman, 18, guilty of murdering admirer |
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An 18-year-old woman who murdered an admirer by stabbing him in a "fit of anger" in his car has been jailed. | An 18-year-old woman who murdered an admirer by stabbing him in a "fit of anger" in his car has been jailed. |
Martyna Ogonowska attacked Filip Jaskiewicz after he tried to touch her sexually, in Peterborough in October, before she fled to an ex's house. | |
She claimed she went to punch Mr Jaskiewicz, 23, but "forgot" she was holding a knife, which punctured his heart and killed him. | |
Ogonowska was given a life sentence and will serve a minimum of 17 years. | |
She was found guilty by a jury at Cambridge Crown Court of murder and possessing a bladed article. | |
Prosecutor Andrew Jackson told jurors the pair had met three days earlier and Mr Jaskiewicz "hoped a relationship would develop". | Prosecutor Andrew Jackson told jurors the pair had met three days earlier and Mr Jaskiewicz "hoped a relationship would develop". |
After a night out at Solstice nightclub in the town, Ogonowska, Mr Jaskiewicz and two friends stopped at about 04:00 BST on 21 October in Oakdale Avenue, where an argument broke out the speed at which he had been driving. | |
Poland-born Ogonowska, of Peterborough, told the court she "got nervous, left the car and slammed the door". | |
But Mr Jaskiewicz followed her and grabbed her neck, forcing her to her knees, actions which Judge David Farrell QC described as an "assault". | |
The mother-of-one had said in evidence the pair returned to the car, where he "started to be aggressive towards me again" and tried to touch her breasts. | |
Judge Farrell said Ogonowska "became annoyed - you wanted attention and showed him the knife" she had been carrying over the course of the evening. | |
"You then, in anger, deliberately stabbed him intending to cause him at the very least really serious bodily harm," he told her. | |
In police interview she said she "forgot" she was holding the knife, and called the murder an "accident". | |
Judge Farrell acknowledged there had been "provocation" and Mr Jaskiewicz had "undoubtedly touched you sexually and was violent towards you" - but said there was "no reasonable self defence when you used a knife you brought to the scene". | |
After stabbing him through the heart she ran away to her ex-boyfriend's house, where she washed the knife and changed her clothes, the court heard. | |
She later turned herself into police, but before that had messaged her mother, who had also been on the night out, and said: "The whole knife went into his heart... Mum, what should I do?". | She later turned herself into police, but before that had messaged her mother, who had also been on the night out, and said: "The whole knife went into his heart... Mum, what should I do?". |
Ogonowska was also sentenced to 18 months for possessing a bladed article, to run concurrently. |