A Polish turkey butcher who cut her girlfriend in half with a kitchen knife and buried her in a garden more than 15 years ago has been found guilty of murder.
Anna Podedworna, 40, killed Izabela Zablocka before trussing her up “like a chicken” with electrical tape and burying her remains in bin bags in a “filthy, makeshift grave”.
Derby Crown Court heard that Ms Zablocka, a 30-year-old mother of one, lost contact with her family in August 2010 and was reported to the police as missing.
Prosecutor Gordon Aspden KC said that “mounting pressure” caused Podedworna to “crack”, and email the police, last year when a Polish television journalist flew to the UK to interview her.
In June, officers found Ms Zablocka’s remains under concrete hardstanding in the garden of a terraced house in Princes Street, Normanton, Derby, which she shared with Podedworna after they moved to the UK from Poland together.
The defendant will be sentenced at the same court on Wednesday.
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