Buried Alive Fiance Gets 20 Years in Prison
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A man who put his fiancée in a cardboard computer box and tried to bury her alive because he was bored with her was sentenced today to 20 years in prison.
Judge Peter Collier at Leeds Crown Court sentenced Marcin Kasprzak, 26, for the attempted murder of his former fiancée Michelina Lewandowska.
“It was your intention that she would not be found. It was your intention that she die there,” Collier said during the sentencing. “The death you intended would have been long and slow. It is mind-numbingly awful to imagine the sort of death you intended her to die.”
The case gained notoriety when Lewandowska clawed her way out of her intended grave, using the diamond on her engagement ring to dig her way out of the box.
Kasprzak and his friend Patryk Borys attacked Lewandowska with a taser at the couple’s home last May, then bound her and stuffed her into a cardboard computer box. They buried her under six inches of dirt and an 88-pound tree branch.
Borys, 18, admitted to kidnapping and was sentenced to four years in prison.
During the trial, Lewandowska told the court she prayed, thought of her 3-year-old son, then gathered the strength to cut her way out of the box using her diamond engagement ring.
Kasprzak admitted to kidnapping, but claimed he only wanted to scare his fiancée. Prosecutors argued Kasprzak had grown bored with the mother of his child and wanted to be rid of her.
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The only clue in this article that this happened in the UK and not somewhere in the US is the mention of Leeds Crown Court. The US has plenty of towns called Leeds but only the UK has Crown Courts. Journalism 101: Who, What, WHERE, When, Why and How.
Posted by: 2hundredthousand | January 13, 2012, 11:51 am 11:51 am
He didn’t “TRY” to bury her alive he DID bury her alive.
Posted by: bob | January 13, 2012, 11:58 am 11:58 am
Thanks for pointing that out Bob. What’s with the “try” nonsense here. He DID bury her alive. The only thing that didn’t happen was that she didn’t die, which was his intent. What a monster!
Posted by: Jane | January 13, 2012, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm
Well, she never really KILLED BILL…………..but she put him in the slammer for a few!
Posted by: Mingo | January 13, 2012, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm
What is really disgusting and deeply disturbing about this case is that this monster only got 20 years sentence. If there is to be any justice, it must be life without parole.
Posted by: Tensai13 | January 13, 2012, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
and now look who just got buried alive?
breathing human without rights. your breakfast, lunch and dinner decided for you.
even when you can take a shower… yup! the coward has been buried alive!
Posted by: buried alive he is | January 13, 2012, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Whatever happend to the good ol days when a guy got tired of you and the kid, he just left….now they have to make sure you never show back up. How was scaring her going to make her leave him? I don’t get it?
Posted by: Court | January 13, 2012, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
TENSAI13: In the UK murder is the only crime with a mandatory life sentence, no other verdict is allowed, but the average time served for a mandatory life sentence is just 14 years. A discretionary life sentence would have been possible for attempted murder but discretionary life sentences average even less time served than mandatory ones. A twenty year sentence will likely keep him locked up for longer than a life sentence would have done.
Posted by: 2hundredthousand | January 13, 2012, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm
They have a three year old son together. She is 26 and he is 18. That is a strange start to a relationship but not as god awful as the end that he planned. How do you find a friend to help bury your girlfriend? The friend only got 4 years. It always amazes me that murderers can find partners in crime so easily.I hope that he stays in all 20 years. He will only be 38 when he gets out.
Posted by: michelina | January 13, 2012, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
@ Michelina- He is actually 26. It did not give her age. The 18 year old was his accomplice/ friend. Just wanted to clarify cause I thought that too. :)
Posted by: OH-IO!! :) | January 13, 2012, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
I may be wrong, but it appears he may have a bit of rope burn around his neck from attempted suicide. Serves him right. What an idiotic thing to do. I think the audio report says she was only in there an hour. It is possible he attended to release her after a bit. If he had then it would have only been assault, battery, kidnapping & confinement. 20 years is light if his intention was death, severe if he was planning to let her out after an hour or two.
Posted by: Hye | January 13, 2012, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
Wow, the poor woman must have come to when the taser wore off and been extremely terrified not knowing where she was! The trauma she endured was inconceivable, and it’s amazing that she found her way out of the ‘grave’. I hope her idiot EX boyfriend gets castrated alive in prison and left to die in his cell.
Posted by: Rob M. | January 13, 2012, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
So he will be out in about 7 years and the other guy will be out in about 2 years. No wonder people are missing all the time, we just keep letting these freaks out of jail. This guy should never be released, how can he possibly go on to be a good productive citizen. Would you want him dating your daughter, sister, etc when he gets out.
Posted by: Seriously | January 13, 2012, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
For a media corporation, ABC, you should know better than to hire a headline writer who will write a headline like “Buried Alive Fiance Gets 20 Years in Prison.” This CLEARLY makes it sound like it was the woman who was buried alive who got the sentence!
Posted by: Tara | January 13, 2012, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
REALLY! Is this what you called “JUSTICE!” Now you’ve just encourage more scumbags to keep killing the innocent and then get a slap in the face then get’s out of prison. If it was me I ship them all over to the communist country and pay them 5 dollar per person to execute them. instead of wasting more taxpayer’s money on keep them alive. That’s justice served and over with. Prison Jail Aren’t made for the cold hearted killers. They’re meant to punish those minor criminal that didin’t involve taking another innocent life.
Posted by: Theodore | January 13, 2012, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
That’s one poorly-written headline. The woman who was buried alive did not get 20 years in prison, for crying out loud.
Posted by: Dave | January 13, 2012, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
The story read that he got bored with her? Well, let’s see what happens when he gets bored with all the guys he gets to spend the next 20 years with.
Posted by: gman5727 | January 13, 2012, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
“Buried Alive Fiance Gets 20 Years in Prison.” –Come on ABC, where are
your proofreaders! I even attached some punctuation’s for future use ” , ‘ ; ! : ? “
Posted by: michael | January 13, 2012, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
ARe you kidding me if he wanted to kill her he would have baried her under more than 6 inches of dirt lol and in a cardboard box? Pedophiles and killers get shorter sentences. This girl isn’t even attractive enough to get that much sympathy. There must be a lot of ugly women in the UK.
Posted by: ramond | January 14, 2012, 10:39 am 10:39 am
What an evil coward.
Posted by: newcountryman | January 14, 2012, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
What a remorseful facial expression he has… *sarcasm* He seems unrepentant of what he did to her. That should be taken into consideration and added to his sentence; but it wont. He’s going to get out, and target another gullible white girl and go back to jail again.
Posted by: LaLaLaLa | January 14, 2012, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Ramond – she is beautiful. And you have no taste, not to mention social skills.
Posted by: AJ | January 14, 2012, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
Whatever happend to the good ol days when a guy got tired of you and the kid, he just left….now they have to make sure you never show back up. How was scaring her going to make her leave him? I don’t get it?
Posted by: Court
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Probably he owed her a lot of money. If the fiancee were “missing” and never found he could could claim “legal desertion” and keep the money for himself. Money talks!
Posted by: spike | January 14, 2012, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
If you don’t want to be with her any more leave her. Or if your gonna bury her you gotta do a little better than 6 inches of dirt. I don’t by that he was trying to scare her. The use of a tazer it going a little to far on a joke.
Posted by: Atheists are smarter | January 14, 2012, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
What is sad there is more outrage over the poorly written article then the 20 years he got.
Posted by: Will i Am | January 14, 2012, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
I think we should have an “eye for an eye” type of law that punishes people in the same manner as their criminal offenses. Here is how it works: Let’s say that you kill someone by burying that person alive, you too will get punished in the exact same way by being buried alive. Or, if you kill someone by shooting that person, you too will get the exact same punishment. I think people will then understand what is meant by “doing unto others what you would like others do unto you.”
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 14, 2012, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
LOL! The man deserves credit for providing her with a diamond ring which she used to cut her way to freedom. Not funny, though.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 14, 2012, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
__”Whatever happend to the good ol days when a guy got tired of you and the kid, he just left….now they have to make sure you never show back up. How was scaring her going to make her leave him? I don’t get it?”
POSTED BY: COURT | JANUARY 13, 2012, 12:55 PM 12:55 PM_______________Fear of paying child support?
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 14, 2012, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm
He very lucky he committed this crime in the liberal UK – where you can murder someone and still be only sentenced to 15 yrs (life term) believe-it-or-not!!! I would have given him at least 30 yrs and NO early release!! This was pre-meditated attempted murder after all!!!
Posted by: makemyday | January 16, 2012, 5:07 am 5:07 am
I wonder if he said to her, “look, it’s not you it’s me”.
Posted by: nether_finlarg | January 26, 2012, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm