He tried to hide the victim in a wheelie bin
A convicted killer from Moldova has been jailed for life for the “evil and depraved” rape and attempted murder of a woman he left for dead in an alleyway in Wellingborough. Sergiu Boianjiu raped and repeatedly stamped on the woman's head before trying to hide her in a wheelie bin.
The two-week trial was told the woman was attacked near a church as she walked home from a night out in Wellingborough at about 5am. She was subjected to a 40-minute ordeal, suffering a life-threatening brain injury, and could remember nothing of being attacked in what prosecutors described as acts of “desolating wickedness”.
The judge said the evidence showed Boianjiu was thinking clearly as he tried to cover up the offence at the scene, searching for evidence that might incriminate him. The judge added: “Your offending is aggravated by a conviction for intentional murder in Moldova. My assessment of you from all the evidence before me is that you are an extremely dangerous man.”
“The defendant hit this woman several times with his hands and feet over various parts of her body, causing her bodily wounds which led to her death. After that, in order to conceal this crime he threw her dead body in a drainage shaft in the park and then fled the scene.” During his closing speech to the jury, prosecutor Gordon Aspden KC said: “The ugly truth here is that this exceptionally dangerous man, for his own selfish reasons, chose to carry out an attack of quite desolating wickedness against a complete stranger. His intention was to rape and ultimately to kill her. His behaviour was evil and depraved.”
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