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The last picture of Beata alive shows her leaving her apartment, believing that she is going to pick up her son.
Instead, she is forced into her husband’s car and driven out to a wooded area where she is murdered.
The preliminary investigation into Beata’s murder shows how she repeatedly tried to raise the alarm about the violent husband.
– I just want a divorce, she said a month before she died.
Beata began telling friends and family about her violent husband the year before she died.
The 49-year-old man she married in 2013 had become increasingly jealous and controlling. He wanted proof that she wasn’t having sex without him, not even with herself. According to Beata, he also hit her, even in front of the children.
Every time Beata talked to her husband about leaving the relationship, he threatened that she would lose custody of her children, a total of five sons whom, according to witness statements, she loved most of all. In police interviews conducted with her just a little over a month before her death, the 32-year-old mother of five herself tells about the violence.
The interrogator: “How many times has he hit you?”
Beata: “Often. There were many times when I didn’t want to have sex that he beat me”.
She tells in the interrogation how he said he will destroy her life. She states:
“I just want a divorce.”
Before Beata was murdered, she had done what a person in a violent relationship is asked to do. She documented the injuries the man inflicted on her with her mobile phone and sent the images to people she trusted. She reported to the police, requested a divorce and sole custody of their common son, and she applied for help from social services with sheltered housing.
But the 49-year-old husband did not stop with his contact attempts.
Page up and page down in the several thousand page long preliminary investigation that was done after the murder and that was submitted to the Malmö district court on Wednesday shows how he continued to text her and contact her in other ways. Since they still shared custody of their son together, some contact was necessary.
On September 24, 2021, the day Beata later disappears and dies, the husband calls her out of the apartment in Malmö where she lives to his car to pick up their son.
An audio recording made on the man’s phone shows how Beata does not want to go with him in the car, she just wants her son out. But the recording is interrupted and at 18.23 the husband leaves the scene in his car with Beata in the passenger seat and the seven-year-old son in the back seat.
At 20.11 he returns with his son to Beata’s apartment, but now without Beata. He tells her older sons that he dropped her off on the way.
The little brother can only state that “mother stayed in the forest.”
It takes almost two months before the husband in questioning finally tells where the police can find Beata.
She is buried in a wooded area. The autopsy shows that she was cut with a knife in the throat and also strangled with the strap of a purse.
The prosecutor suspects that the seven-year-old son witnessed, at least by hearsay, the murder of his own mother. The 49-year-old is therefore also charged with serious breach of child protection.
Recently, the first verdict in Sweden regarding child welfare violations where a child has witnessed a murder was handed down in the case of murdered Carine, which Aftonbladet followed.
The accused husband himself has admitted that he may have caused Beata’s death but denies intent and thus also the classification of murder.
For Beata’s family in Poland, it is important that the husband receives a tangible punishment for what he has done. They describe it as having lost a part of themselves.
– Nothing will be the same again, because she will always be missed, her siblings have previously told Aftonbladet.
Beata’s sons are all taken care of. The family in Poland is in contact with them every week and hopes that they will be able to move in together in the future.
And Beata, who turned 32, is now buried in Poland.