| Angelika Kluk | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1983 Skoczów, Poland |
| Died | 24 September 2006 (aged 23) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Cause of death | Blunt and sharp force trauma |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Known for | Murder victim |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Parents | Wladyslaw and Henryka Kluk |
The Angelika Kluk murder case was a criminal trial that took place at the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, between 23 March and 4 May 2007.[1]
Angelika Kluk (February 1983 - 24 September 2006) was a Polish student from Skoczów who was studying Norwegian at the University of Gdańsk. She was the younger daughter of Władysław and Henryka Kluk who were divorced when she was 5 years old. She was initially looked after by her mother but she and her older sister Aneta were brought up by her father.
The result of the trial was that the defendant Peter Tobin was found guilty of raping and murdering Kluk, and was sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 21 years. In sentencing Tobin, Judge Lord Menzies described him as "an evil man".[2]
In September 2006, Tobin was working as a church handyman in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Anderston, Glasgow. He had assumed the name "Pat McLaughlin" to avoid detection by police and probation officials as he was still on the sex offenders register following his 1994 rape and assault of two teenage girls in Hampshire.
Kluk was a Polish languages student on a working holiday in Glasgow, who was last seen in the company of Tobin. She was a Catholic. At the time of her death, she was having an affair with a 40 year old married man. She was stabbed, tied up, raped, beaten to death with a table leg,[3] then concealed in a void beneath the floor near the confessional box in St. Patrick's Church. She had been missing for several days when police found her body on 29 September 2006. Tobin was arrested shortly after.[4][5]
The trial resulted from the evidence gathered under the supervision of Detective Superintendent David Swindle of Strathclyde Police and took place at the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, between 23 March and 4 May 2007.[1]
The trial judge was Lord Menzies; the prosecution was led by Advocate Depute Dorthy Bain, and the defence by Donald Findlay QC.[6] Tobin denied raping and murdering Ms Kluk and claimed she had consented to having sex with him.
During the trial, former parish priest Father Gerry Nugent, a self-confessed alcoholic, repeatedly changed his story, evading questions about his relationship with Kluk and how he had come to know the location of her body. Nugent said he had sex with her 3 or 4 times.[7] Nugent was eventually found guilty of contempt of court by prevarication, and sentenced to one hundred hours of community service and one year of probation.[8]
Nugent, who was 66, was found dead in his Glasgow home on 5 January 2010.[9]