Man found guilty of rural Bedfordshire murder
Lukasz Stachura will be sentenced later this month
A man has been found guilty of a rural murder in Bedfordshire.
Lukasz Stachura was found guilty of murdering Kamil Leszczynski after the 33-year-old, from Wellingborough, was discovered close to a farm track in fields off Turvey Road, between the villages of Carlton and Turvey.
Police say the victim’s hands were tied together with phone chargers, and there was further evidence he had been seriously assaulted.
Stachura 40, of Gold Street, Wellingborough, repeatedly denied being responsible for the death during a three-week trial despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, but was unanimously found guilty.
Detective Inspector Dale Mepstead, who led the investigation, said: “Throughout this trial our thoughts have remained with Kamil’s family and friends, who have been put through the rigours of a trial due to Stachura’s baseless insistence that he was innocent.
“Despite substantial evidence, he continued to peddle a fictional situation that he was the subject of a plot to frame him. Our extensive enquiries proved that his claims were unfounded and purely a selfish attempt to avoid justice and I am grateful to the jury for seeing through his self-serving lies.
“I would like to thank the brave witnesses who came forward to help us paint a picture of Stachura and allowed us to establish how he knew his victim and the interaction between the pair in the days before the incident took place.
“This dangerous man now faces a significant spell behind bars and our communities are without doubt safer with him removed from society.”
Stachura will be sentenced later this month.