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- NARRATOR: May the 22nd, 1997,
Hammersmith, London.

46-year-old Trajce Koneva
cycled home to meet

his 12-year-old daughter,
Katerina.

It was the first time the
schoolgirl had ever been

home alone.

- DR. YARDLEY: Her father tried
to phone her

and she wasn't answering

and he became quite worried
so he rushed back home.

And when he arrived
he, couldn't get into the house.

He sees a pair of man's shoes
underneath the door

and this causes him concern
because there's somebody

in his home who shouldn't
be there.

- He starts to bang on the door
with all his might,

he shoves it, he kicks it,
he cannot open it.

Consumed by fear, he is
horrified at what could be

happening to his beloved
daughter.

- NARRATOR: Realizing the
intruder was escaping, Trajce

chased after him and came
face to face with

Andrzej Kunowski, an illegal
immigrant from Poland.

Trajce didn't know it
but he was looking

into the eyes of his
daughter's murderer.

- DAVID: Kunowski was
a cold-blooded criminal,

he had no respect
for human life,

he had no
respect for young girls,

he had no respect for the law.

- NARRATOR: Katerina's
father chased after Kunowski

but the callous killer fled.

A European manhunt was
already in force searching

for the fugitive who was
wanted for charges

of sexual assaults and rapes
on women and young girls

in Poland.

- Kunowski was known as
The Beast, seldom has

a nickname been deserved
more.

- NARRATOR: He was a
prolific pedophile

and sexual predator who
attacked vulnerable victims

for almost three decades
and would go on to take

the life of a 12-year-old girl.

This makes Andrzej Kunowski

one of the world's most evil
killers.

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- NARRATOR: May the 22nd,
1997, Hammersmith,

West London, England.

The country was in shock
when news broke

that a 12-year-old schoolgirl
had been brutally murdered

in her own home.

Katerina Koneva was followed
home from school

by a prolific sex offender
and pedofile,

41-year-old Andrzej Kunowski.

- GEOFFREY: She was beautiful,
talented, promising,

and to snuff out her life
was an act of inconceivable

brutality,
barbarity of the worst kind.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski was
a wanted Polish national

who'd entered the UK illegally
less than seven months

before the brutal murder.

He left his mark on Senior
Investigating Officer,

David Little.

- Kunowski was actually
probably one of the worst people

I've ever dealt with in my time

mainly 'cause he was so
prolific.

- NARRATOR: The MET Police
worked tirelessly to identify

Katerina's killer.

In doing so they would also
bring to justice a criminal

who was wanted for a string
of heinous crimes in Poland.

Journalist Szymon Wyrostek
was a young boy at the time

of Kunowski's crimes in Poland.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- MALE INTERPRETER: He's still
remembered in our town.

He was a very dangerous
criminal and an utterly

depraved man.

He had no regard for human
life, people were there

to satisfy his wild,
animalistic urges.

- DAVID: He had no remorse
at all, and there was nothing

that could stop him,
basically,

apart from being incarcerated.

- NARRATOR: This killer's
story begins in Warsaw,

Poland.

Andrzej Miroslav Klembert
was born

on March the 29th, 1956.

Warsaw had suffered heavily
during the Second World War

and this post-war period
was a difficult time

for the country.

Young Andrzej didn't have
the easiest of childhoods.

- His parents were petty
criminals; at the age of two,

he went to a foster home
because both of his parents

went to prison.

His grandfather,
we understand,

was in a psychiatric ward
or sexual offences as well.

- He went into the institutional
care system and I think

by the time he was returned
to his mother quite a lot

of damage had been done.

- NARRATOR: After leaving
prison Andrzej's mother

met and married builder
Stefan Kunowski.

Andrzej took his stepfather's
surname and the family

set up home in Mlawa,
a small town 80 miles north

of Warsaw.

At first, family life appeared
to be normal.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: As a child
Kunowski was quite short,

a bit overweight, he was
teased by his classmates

and he struggled to fit in.

I think this had an impact
on his psyche.

- PAUL: He was a bit
of a mother's boy, but he had

a ferocious temper and he
used to respond to the taunts

with explosions of anger
and violence.

- NARRATOR: As well as a violent
tendency, as he grew older,

Kunowski became fascinated
with local girls

which unnerved those
around him.

- GEOFFREY: His mother begins to
sense that there's something

in the adolescent Kunowski
that is a little unusual.

She was to say later that
he developed an unhealthy

appetite for sex, an
unnatural sexual desire.

- NARRATOR: Age 13,
he first came to the attention

of the authorities for stealing.

- Theft and those kind of
property offenses are all

about a sense of entitlement
they are about wanting

something and just going
and taking it, regardless

of the impact on others.

So this is a very early
warning sign for me.

- NARRATOR: As punishment,
Kunowski was sent

to juvenile detention.

- I think it would have been
a bit of a learning experience

for him but not a positive one.

I think he would have been
learning from his peers

who had also committed
offenses.

I think he's becoming a
slightly more skilled criminal

in the time that he's there.

- NARRATOR: By the age of 17,
Kunowski had moved

back into the family home
but soon reverted to his

thieving ways and would
steal money from his mother.

His disturbing preoccupation
with local girls

had also continued.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Few people
knew what the monster

in their neighborhood was
hiding, some women said

there was something strange
in his eyes.

- GEOFFREY: He was the sort of
boy that a girl would probably

not look at twice.

But at the age of 17 he
clearly felt some kind

of profound sexual urge and
decides to attack a neighbor's

16-year-old daughter.

He drags her into the bushes
and rapes her.

- DR. YARDLEY: This is a very
early age to be committing

this kind of offense and it's
very important that we realize

that you don't go from a
healthy individual one day,

with normal psychological
functioning,

to a rapist the next,

there would have been
an escalation of behavior.

- NARRATOR: The
16-year-old victim was able

to identify her neighbor
Kunowski as her rapist.

Two other local girls also
came forward, having been

attacked in similar
circumstances, and one

of these was added to the
indictment against Kunowski.

He was sentenced to three
years in prison.

It would be the first rape
conviction of many.

- GEOFFREY: In 1976,

he's released from prison,
he's now 20.

He's spruced himself up a bit,
given to dressing quite well.

- PAUL: He also earned
the nickname of Little Doctor,

which involved his rather
exaggerated habit

of clicking his heels

and slightly bowing whenever
he met someone.

- GEOFFREY: But don't let anyone
be fooled by that, this is a man

who has nothing in mind
but rape.

Within a month he commits
the next attack, this time

it's a 24-year-old woman.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski
was apprehended

and returned to prison for
another nine months

for the rape.

However, it was only
a temporary respite

for the community.

- GEOFFREY: He was only
sentenced

to nine months' imprisonment.

A young man who's already
served three years in prison

for rape--was that not taken
into account?

Was there no suggestion
that perhaps we have

the beginnings of a serial
rapist on our hands?

- NARRATOR: Once again,
prison time didn't curb

the devious sexual desires
in Kunowski, instead, it only

seemed to ignite them,
and the 22-year-old

went on to attack more
women and young girls

in the area.

- In 1978 he committed
rapes in June, July, August,

September, October,
and November,

sometimes, on one occasion,
up to four rapes in a month.

He was totally prolific
and probably felt he was

untouchable.

- [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Kunowski
would typically attack a woman

and then choke her.

He had a specific method
to lure his victims in.

First, he would call out
to a woman from his car

and as she'd approach him
and lean in

he would wind up the window,
trapping her.

He would then approach her
from behind

and very brutally rape her.

His victims were extremely
intimidated and later

couldn't remember his face.

Which shows just how brutal
and how aggressive

this monster, The Beast
from Mlawa, was.

- NARRATOR: By the end
of 1978, Kunowski had

brutally attacked at least
24 victims.

On the 22nd of December,
he forced a girl into a cellar

holding a razor to her ear
before raping her.

She was just 11 years old.

- Kunowski's record is one
of escalation, as he grows older

with more experience
of how he can get away

with these attacks and with
better opportunities,

he can spot for these attacks,

and it also reflects his
mounting lust.

It's an escalating graph of
him getting more, and more,

and more dangerous.

- NARRATOR: In January, 1979,
his reign of terror halted

when authorities convicted
Kunowski for some

of the rapes he'd committed
during the previous year.

But being behind bars in
a male prison still didn't

stop him offending.

- DAVID: He was a very prolific
sex offender, he had also

raped a cellmate in prison,
he had no remorse whatsoever.

- NARRATOR: In April, 1979
Kunowski was almost

three months into a
sentence at Warszawa Wola

Detention Prison, Poland,
for a series of brutal rapes

on young girls and women.

Bored of prison life, Kunowski
didn't intend to stay

behind bars, he was planning
a great escape.

- Kunowski's in prison and
decides that he wishes not to be

and saws through the bars
of his cell to get out.

It almost defies belief, I mean,
here is a serial rapist

who seems to be able to
escape at will.

Needless to say, no sooner
has he done so,

than he rapes again.

- NARRATOR:
On the 8th of May, 1979,

police intercepted him 85 miles
away in the city of Lodz.

Desperate to avoid re-arrest,

Kunowski took a young girl
hostage with an axe.

After a tense standoff, police
succeeded in bringing him

back into custody.

And after three months he
was transferred

to a psychiatric hospital
in Prusków,

but once again he managed
to free himself.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: He saws
through the bars of the

psychiatric hospital and
breaks out.

- NARRATOR:
Kunowski stole two cars

and fled across the country.

But he was eventually
pursued by the police

and crashed one of the
stolen cars into a house

near Jadów.

He was immediately arrested
and taken back into custody

on the morning
of August the 24th, 1979.

There, he awaited trial.

- DR. YARDLEY: Prison is just a
bit of a revolving door for him

at this point in his life.

When he's spending time
in prison he's learning

from other people, he's
ruminating, he's fantasizing,

he's planning his next attack

because that's all
that matters to him.

- NARRATOR: Authorities
took a tougher stance in 1980,

when Kunowski was faced
with over 70 charges,

predominantly for sex
offenses and rape against

women and children.

The litany of charges also
included escape

from a police convoy and
attempted murder.

- Finally his crimes catch up
with him and he's effectively

sentenced to 15 years
imprisonment.

- NARRATOR: On hearing
the verdict, the prosecutor,

Valdemas Marczewski
said he'd hoped to separate

Kunowski from society for
longer, as he was certain

he would go on to rape again,

perhaps even start killing.

Five years later, an additional
15 years were added

in recognition of the brutality
Kunowski had shown

to one of his young victims.

Kunowski was now facing
30 years behind bars.

- DR. YARDLEY: At this point in
Poland's history, their prisons

are massively overcrowded,
the actual conditions

in these prisons would have
been absolutely horrendous.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski was
desperate to get out

and wrote to the Polish
authorities.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: He claims
that his cell mates treated

him badly, that they humiliated
him psychologically

and physically,
that he was beaten.

At some point his teeth
got knocked out.

Kunowski complains that
he had his throat slit.

- NARRATOR: While Kunowski's
letters had no effect,

a momentous announcement
by the Polish parliament

in 1989 would have a
significant impact

on the 33-year-old's future.

To mark the end of communism,
an amnesty act was passed,

which resulted in the reduction
of prison sentences.

Kunowski used this to his
advantage.

On the 17th of January, 1990
the court in Osten delivered

a decision allowing him to be
considered for parole.

He walked free the following
year after demonstrating

good behavior.

- DR. YARDLEY: There was an
absolute failure on the part of

the Polish criminal justice
system because he

was a serial offender and
when somebody is constantly

making that decision time
and time again to harm

other people they're not
going to simply decide to stop

one day.

- NARRATOR: Despite his
criminal background,

Kunowski's family were keen
to help their son get back

on his feet.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: With the
help of his family he bought

himself a delivery van,
and he was living in a flat

which his parents bought him
on Tuwima Street in Mlawa.

Kunowski started training at
the local market,

there he met a woman

who would become
his future partner.

What the woman had in
common with his victims

is a considerable age
difference,

she was ten years his junior.

They would go on to have
a daughter together.

- [speaking Polish]

- NARRATOR: However,
despite setting up home

with his partner and her
six-year-old son, Kunowski

still couldn't contain his
devious and aggressive behavior

and continued to
prey upon vulnerable women

without his partner's
knowledge.

She soon became aware
of his violent tendencies.

- GEOFFREY: Eventually,
he attacks her,

and also, for good measure,
he attacks her son.

Trying to be someone
conventional

and respectable

simply doesn't suit Kunowski's
character.

Underneath that polished
exterior is a poisonous toad

of a little man who thinks
nothing of destroying women

and anyone he may come
across.

- NARRATOR: The relationship
broke down

and Kunowski's partner left him.

She would soon discover she
was pregnant,

and vowed to protect the child,
a baby girl, from him.

Meanwhile Kunowski had
become obsessed with a new

type of victim, so-called
latchkey children.

- DR. YARDLEY: At this point
in his offending history

he begins to target young girls

who are home alone,
latchkey children.

Their mum, their dad might
be out at work and they

are in the house on their
own.

Now, this is really significant
for me because he's starting

to engage in some kind of
stalking behavior and so

this does suggest to me that
his offending is becoming

more sophisticated and he's
becoming a lot more dangerous.

- NARRATOR: Soon reports of
school children being attacked

spread in and
around the county of Mlawa

and as far away as Warsaw.

Parents were terrified of
leaving their children alone.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: At the time,
I was in primary school.

My classmates and I were
accompanied to the nearby school

by our parents or grandparents.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Where we were
allowed to go was restricted.

At that time I didn't know
his name, I just knew

that he was an older man.

We were told that if we
saw a man acting strange,

we should scream and go
straight home.

- NARRATOR: In 1992,
Kunowski continued to prey

on vulnerable children
in both Mlawa and Warsaw.

Despite being arrested
several times, by 1995

he was free to resume his
attacks on young girls.

Targeting an 11-year-old
in February

and abducting another in March.

On May the 16th that year,
he struck again.

- GEOFFREY: Kunowski is on
the streets of Warsaw,

and once again targets
a young girl coming back

from school.

He watches her, sees that
she lets herself in to her flat

with a latchkey, there doesn't
appear to be anyone in

except her.

He knocks on the door,
forces his way in and then

engages her in a conversation,
which is bizarre to say

the least, in which,
"Can you keep a secret?"

he says to her.

She's obviously slightly
bewildered by all this.

And then he asks her to kiss
him and then of course

he starts to suffocate her, he
pulls her blouse over her head

and he attacks her.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski then
fled the scene,

and the 10-year-old girl
bravely raised the alarm.

- She shouts, screams after him
and he is in fact caught.

- NARRATOR: Linking other
similar crimes in the area,

the police were able to put
Kunowski on trial.

The primary charge was rape
of an 11-year-old girl.

There was great interest
from the local media.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Journalists
named Kunowski The Beast

from Mlawa, a very
appropriate description

when it comes to Kunowski.

- NARRATOR: It seemed
that justice would finally

be served however there was
to be a twist of fate.

- Kunowski pulls one of the
great stunts, he persuades

the prison authorities that
he's got a very sore left hip

and that it very badly inhibits
his movement.

It is complete
and utter balderdash,

but nevertheless, the Little
Doctor is quite convincing.

- DAVID: In June, 1996 he was
actually released from prison

on three months' parole
in order to get a hip operation.

And he was left free to go
and sort it out for himself.

- NARRATOR: The man
named The Beast never did

have his operation.

Instead he embarked
on a 1,000-mile trip,

he was London-bound.

- I think Kunowski reaches
the point where he realizes

he needs a blank slate
so I think there is that urge

in him to start somewhere
else and to start looking

for a new victim pool.

- In his last years in Poland,
the press had taken

to giving him a nickname,
"The Beast."

Well, The Beast had arrived
in England and it was only

a matter of time before he
would strike again.

- DAVID: He arrived in October,
1996, at Victoria Station.

From that moment on he just
disappeared into the UK.

As an illegal immigrant he was
totally below the radar

and because of that his DNA
was not taken, his fingerprints

were not taken, we had no
knowledge of who Kunowski was.

- PAUL: At that time there was
tens of thousands

of European people arriving.

It was impossible for the
authorities to keep track

of this and very easy
for Kunowski to disappear

into the subculture of London,
where jobs are paid

cash-in-hand, where rent
is paid cash-in-hand,

and no questions are asked.

- GEOFFREY: The fact that he is
an illegal immigrant

with a disgusting record of
crime in his native Poland

is known to no one.

- PAUL: It's difficult to
imagine Kunowski could even had

stood out in a crowd, he was
just an everyday bloke

in the street.

And in the accommodation
in which he flitted between,

in various bedsits and flats,
people were coming and going.

It was a perfect cover for him
to get up to what he wanted

to do and to resume his
attacks on women.

- NARRATOR: Just seven months
after arriving in the UK,

Kunowski's perverse desire
for attacking children

was once again ignited.

He was on the prowl for
another victim and the

41-year-old reverted to a
familiar M.O., following

so-called latchkey children
home from school

in the knowledge that they
would be alone.

And it wasn't long before
he struck again.

- PAUL: Kunowski had spotted
Katerina Koneva.

I suspect that he did his
homework and that he knew

that she left school and
would arrive back at her flat

in Hammersmith.

- DAVID: Katerina was a
12-year-old girl

who'd come over from Macedonia
with both of her parents,

Trajce and Jackie,
and her younger brother.

She was studying at Holland
Park School, she was

well-liked, she was a bubbly
young girl.

Her family were here to
learn English and to escape

from Macedonia, effectively,
as they wanted a better life.

- NARRATOR: On May the
22nd, 1997, as Katerina

made her way home from
school she couldn't know

she was being followed.

- DR. YARDLEY:
This is very similar

to the offense that we know of
in Poland,

so this would have
been planned because this

would have involved some
kind of stalking.

And I've heard stalking
described as

murder in slow motion and that's
exactly what it is in this case.

- NARRATOR: When the
12-year-old arrived at her flat,

Kunowski was close behind.

In a twist of fate this was
the first time Katerina

had ever been home alone.

- Her dad should have been
at home but unfortunately

he was delayed at his
English lessons

and so he was late.

Katerina went home from school
as normal,

let herself in,
and we assume that Kunowski

knocked on her door, there was
no sign of forced entry at all,

and the door was locked
internally after he'd entered

the house.

- GEOFFREY: I think she would
have opened the door,

she was a trusting young girl.

What she was doing, however,
was letting in a monster.

He takes her into the living
room of the flat and barricades

the door with a chair.

- PAUL: From that moment,
inside the flat, what happened

between killer and victim
only the killer knows.

But he clearly had grabbed
her and began to choke her

with a cord he found to hand.

Pushing her down and choking
her at the same time

as he attacked her.

She must have been screaming,
but in a flat

at that time of the day,
no one could hear it.

- NARRATOR: At some point
Katerina's father, Tracje,

had returned home but the
door was locked

from the inside and Katerina
did not answer.

Becoming concerned, Tracje
looked through the letterbox.

- He saw Katerina lying on
the floor, he then saw

beneath the door, basically
what he describes as

two black shoes.

He then obviously realized
that something was wrong.

- GEOFFREY: He's horrified,
he starts to bang on the door

with all his might,
he shoves it, he kicks it,

he cannot open it.

Consumed by fear, he is
horrified at what could be

happening to his beloved
daughter.

- DAVID: Whilst that was
happening he became aware that

the person inside had moved
to the front of the house,

effectively, and naturally
assumed that the person

was leaving by the
first-floor window.

So he ran downstairs and
out to the front and saw

Kunowski actually coming
out of the window

and land in the front garden.

He then confronted Kunowski,

who just basically
stared at him.

- NARRATOR: Getting his
first look at the intruder,

Tracje noticed a spot of
blood on his face.

As Kunowski fled the scene,
Tracje had only a split second

to plan his next move.

His instinct was to chase
after him.

- As they went down the
street Kunowski turned

and shouted to passersby,
"Help me, help me!"

And two workmen could
see that something

was happening here
and decided to intervene.

- DR. YARDLEY: He's actually
making out that he's the victim,

that somebody's after him,
and passersby in the streets

basically help him.

- NARRATOR: The well-meaning
members of the public

held Tracje back, allowing
Kunowski to get a head start.

Tracje managed to break free
and continued the pursuit.

The chase came to an
abrupt halt when Kunowski

pulled out a knife.

Surrendering, Tracje rushed
back to check on his daughter.

- After Kunowski had run
away from Tracje, he wanted

to get away from the scene
of the crime as fast

as he possibly could.

There was a young lady
driving her car

down the street at the time,
he stopped in front of her

and threatened her with
a knife and made her

get out of her car.

- NARRATOR: He sped off
in the hijacked vehicle

before abandoning it
half a mile away

on Shepherd's Bush Road.

He then boarded a bus destined
for Hammersmith Broadway.

- He gets off the bus and
disappears into the crowd.

Once again in the wind,
beneath the radar.

- NARRATOR: With Kunowski
on the run, Tracje had made it

back to his flat.

The scene behind the door
would devastate

his family's life forever.

- PAUL: When he came back he
had to break the door down

to get in past the barricades
that Kunowski had across

the door, and there found
his daughter with this cord

so tight around her neck,
lying on the floor.

He was trying desperately
to pull at this cord

and he couldn't manage it
so he went to the kitchen

to get a kitchen knife to try
and cut it open.

- DAVID: He was screaming
for help, obviously,

and one of the neighbors went
to help him, police were called.

- And by the time they
arrived he was desperately

trying to revive her.

Paramedics took over,
but without any success.

- NARRATOR:
Katerina had been murdered.

The cause of the 12-year-old's
death was strangulation.

The police needed to act
fast to find the culprit.

- Most killings happen in
a domestic scene and often

it's the last person or the
person there who turns out

to be the killer.

- Unfortunately Tracje has
to be considered as a suspect

and was being questioned
as such.

- The first time his wife
finds him, he is a prisoner.

Her daughter is dead
and her husband is accused

of killing her.

The impact on her must
have been devastating.

- NARRATOR: With no
witnesses to the murder itself,

police appeal to the
local community

for information.

Seven people would come forward
having witnessed the chase

but their evidence had flaws.

A number of the witnesses
had assumed that Kunowski

was actually a victim being
chased and so descriptions

of him became muddled
with descriptions of Tracje.

The police were no closer
to catching the actual killer.

Whilst police artists worked
to produce a composite sketch

of the man seen
running away detectives

had a stroke of luck when
a local builder's yard checked

their security camera.

- There is CCTV evidence
of the two running past

an alleyway, first Kunowski
and then, obviously, being...

chased by Tracje.

- NARRATOR: The CCTV
proved Tracje's claims

that he had chased an
intruder away from his home.

At the murder scene,

forensic teams found two
significant clues.

- GEOFFREY: One was a
fingerprint on the windowsill

which did not belong to any
member of the family.

The other was a single hair
on a cardigan of Katerina's.

- NARRATOR: But there was
one major obstacle.

- Kunowski's fingerprints
weren't on file anywhere

in Britain and so any
conventional method

of trying to find the offender
using either fingerprints

or DNA wasn't available.

Kunowski was a ghost.

- NARRATOR: Detectives
working to create a profile

of the murderer couldn't
begin to guess the true

depravity of this killer,
or how widespread

his crimes were.

- DR. YARDLEY: It was inevitable
that Kunowski was going to kill

because he enjoyed the
feelings of power,

he felt that he was entitled
to do what he wanted

with his victims.

- NARRATOR: Once again
Kunowski was at large.

The killer moved towards
the West Midlands seeking

employment in fruit farms,
but he soon went back

to his thieving ways.

- It wasn't long before he
had his fingers in the till

and he was arrested for
stealing from his employer.

He clearly thought he was
bulletproof.

- NARRATOR: When police examined
Kunowski's forged passport

they discovered his visa
had expired,

and he was detained
in Oxfordshire

on immigration offenses.

The murder of Katerina
one month earlier

still remained unsolved.

And whilst forensic evidence
had been taken

from the murder scene, there was
no match on the national

DNA database.

Immigration officials didn't
know they had a killer

in custody and the killer
had no intention of waiting

to be caught.

- Had the law at that time
allowed the immigration

authorities to take a DNA
sample from someone

they suspected was an
illegal immigrant they would

have been able to say to the
police in Hammersmith

that the man they had in
their custody was actually

the man who had murdered
Katerina.

- NARRATOR: Unaware that
they had a killer in custody,

immigration authorities
granted Kunowski

temporary release whilst
his case was being considered.

- PAUL: He was in need
of a new identity,

so when he was released
from the detention center,

he managed to procure a fake
Portugese passport

and of course, again,
it put another distance

between
himself and his criminal past.

- NARRATOR: In September, 1997,
Kunowski's application

was turned down
and he appealed.

The serial escapee had no
intention of returning

for his immigration hearing.

By the time the appeal was
rejected in December, 1997,

he had disappeared.

He would live life under the
radar for the next four years.

- DAVID: I have no idea where
he was for those years.

He was using aliases,
he may have been arrested

and dealt with under another
name somewhere else

totally different.

But I find it inconceivable
that he did not commit

other offenses.

- NARRATOR: In 2001,
four years after

the brutal killing of Katerina,

Kunowski had made his way
back to West London.

- GEOFFREY: Kunowski's
brass neck knew no bounds,

he even registers with the NHS

under his assumed name of Dias,

for a heart bypass
operation.

It's breathtaking audacity.

- NARRATOR: The following
year, after a period

of recuperation, The Beast
was fighting-fit and back

on the streets of West London.

- Now he's living in a room
in Acton working part time

as a tailor, little odd jobs
here and there.

And yet again targeting
vulnerable young women.

At one point, he's hovering
outside Ealing Broadway

Underground Station

and he spies a young
Korean woman, 21,

looking at a board which
has advertisements

for rooms to let.

- DAVID: He went up to her,
offered her assistance,

told her that he would help
her find somewhere to live,

she'd not long been in the
country and her English

was actually very distorted.

So he offered to take her
back to where he was staying,

his bedsit, and help her find
accomodation.

- DR. YARDLEY: When Kunowski
decided to lure this student

back to his flat,
I think there was

an intention to kill,
because he'd killed before,

I think he'd enjoyed
killing before,

he'd gotten away with it
before.

So I think there was a real
arrogance in him

at this point in time.

- Once he got her to his
bedsit he overpowered her,

tied her up, and raped her.

- Kunowski was now
at the height of his brutality

as an experienced sexual
predator and brutal

in his aggression against women.

And he attacked this Korean
student with a frenzy.

- To actually be taken, tied up
in somebody else's home

and then raped is a
horrendous ordeal.

She was estranged to the
country, she'd not long been

in this country, she'd thought
she'd been befriended

by somebody who was going
to help her.

He abused that trust,
he abused her.

- NARRATOR: During
the three-hour ordeal

the defenseless student's
survival instincts kicked in.

- DR. YARDLEY: This young woman,
she was very smart, she was able

to basically talk her way
out of it, but she was able

to say to him, "Well, it's okay,
I'll call you tomorrow,"

or, "I want to see you again."

So she was appealing to a
kind of inherent narcissism

within him.

And it saved her life, it was
an incredibly brave thing to do.

- Kunowski, in his vanity
and arrogance, thought that

would be alright and that
she would actually phone him

the following day.

The young Korean woman
goes straight to the police.

For the first time Kunowski's
made a real blunder.

- NARRATOR: By committing
the offense in his own flat,

Kunowski had effectively
led police to his front door.

However, the police still
had no idea this was

Katerina's killer.

In May, 2003 he was
convicted of the rape

and received nine years
imprisonment

at HMP Belmarsh.

When officials took Kunowski's
DNA it sparked some

interesting developments.

- GEOFFREY: A number of things
have happened,

his DNA is on file,
his fingerprints are on file.

The review of Katerina's
killing is initiated,

and lo and behold,
the DNA matches.

- The most damning DNA
evidence was the DNA

on the hair on Katerina's
cardigan and also a fingerprint

as Kunowski jumped out of
the window.

Both of those are irrefutable,
absolute pieces of evidence.

- PAUL: When MET found that they
had not just a rapist

but a significant murderer
in a case that they hadn't

been able to solve for
six years, they then checked

in international files.

And suddenly it flashed up,
to the astonishment

of the London detectives,
that Kunowski had

this massive record
for two decades of attacks

in Poland.

- The Polish authorities
were very helpful

with their assistance and the
DNA proved that he'd committed

offenses in Poland as well.

- NARRATOR: The trial for
the murder of Katerina Koneva

began at The Old Bailey
in March, 2004.

Both Senior Investigating
Officer David Little

and Court Correspondent,
Paul Cheston witnessed

the proceedings.

- It was a very emotional
trial because the family,

both Tracje and Jackie,
were obviously very upset

about what had happened.

- PAUL: Tragedy on this nature,
a particularly violent murder

in a family, often has the
most destructive effect,

they almost turn on
themselves in a way.

And Katerina's mother
and father split up.

- Unfortunately, in every case
where a child or anybody

has been murdered, the family
assume a degree of guilt,

absolutely incorrectly.

Tracje expected to be home
before he was.

Jackie expected Tracje to be
home for their daughter

arriving home.

Between the two of them
they both harbored a degree

of guilt
for what had happened.

- NARRATOR: Tracje was
face to face with his daughter's

killer once again.

But this time he had to give
evidence of that fateful day

and the heartbreaking
decision he made.

- PAUL: The moment that had the
most impact on me was just

how he explained how he'd
stumbled across this attack

on his own daughter in his
own flat and was confronted

with the two-horned dilemma
of: chase the attacker

or tend to his stricken
daughter.

And that was explained in
his own words through

a whole veil of tears in his
eyes and choking in his throat,

it was heartrending evidence
from the witness box.

- NARRATOR:
The heartless killer, Kunowski,

appeared unmoved.

- DAVID: When Kunowski was in
the docket court he showed

no remorse, he just stayed
there, listened to the evidence

totally without any emotion
whatsoever.

- NARRATOR: It took the jury
of four women and eight men

less than three hours
to decide.

Kunowski was found guilty
of Katerina's murder

and sentenced to life
imprisonment

by the Common Serjeant of London
Judge Peter Beaumont QC.

- Sentencing Kunowski
for the murder of Katerina

the judge said, and I quote,
"You took the life of a child

"who was just beginning to
enjoy what this country

"had to offer.

"It was a life of great promise
and you ended it

in circumstances of great
violence and terror."

- NARRATOR: Kunowski's
sentence was bittersweet

for Katerina's parents.

- DAVID:
They'd lost their daughter,

a 12-year-old girl.

At the time of conviction
Tracje felt there was closure

and it had been dealt with.
Jackie didn't.

She felt cheated, she just
felt that nothing could be done

to make amends for
what he had done.

- NARRATOR: Whilst
Kunowski began his sentence

at HMP Frankland, Europe's
media descended

on the small village of Mlawa.

- GEOFFREY: In Poland,
Kunowski's mother

is, naturally, approached
by the media,

and she confesses that she never
thought

that he was entirely
normal but refuses

to accept that he actually
is a monster.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski
wasn't in prison for long.

Five years into his life
sentence,

he died of heart failure
in the Durham Prison, aged 53.

- When we discovered that
Kunowski had died in prison

the first thing we did was
to go and tell the families.

And I do know that Jackie
felt cheated by his death,

she wanted him to burn
in hell, she said.

She did feel that he'd got
the easy way out.

- NARRATOR: Even after his
death countless victims

are still living a life sentence
imposed by him.

- INTERPRETER: This kind of
experience had an impact

on these people,

it changed their life
and behavior entirely.

- DAVID: He continually offended
whilst he was at large

and I'm certain he must have
committed other offenses.

- GEOFFREY: We cannot know how
dangerous Kunowski was.

This was, literally,
a predator on the loose.

He could have committed
literally hundreds of attacks

and we shall never ever know
for sure.

- NARRATOR: He was a prolific
sex offender and pedophile

who caused torment and fear
across Europe for almost

three decades before taking
the life of a bright,

young girl who had her
whole future ahead of her.

He showed no remorse
for any of his actions

and that's what makes
Andrzej Kunowski

one of the world's most evil
killers.

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