A lady and her accomplice have every been sentenced to 39 years in jail for the “horrific” homicide of 15-year-old Sebastian Kalinowski.
Agnieszka Kalinowska, 36, and Andrzej Latoszewski, 38, have been convicted at Leeds crown court docket in July of murdering Kalinowska’s son at their residence in Huddersfield in a protracted marketing campaign of bodily abuse amounting to torture.
Sebastian died after contracting sepsis, introduced on by the accidents from lots of of punches, kicks, whippings and stabbings over months.
Although they weren’t a whole-life time period, the decide, Mrs Justice Lambert, stated the sentence “would be the equal” because the pair could be of their late 70s when eligible for launch.
Lambert additionally issued every of them a nine-year little one cruelty sentence to run concurrently with their homicide sentences.
Sentencing Latoszewski, she stated: “There are occasions when it appeared to me that you just had misplaced consciousness that you just have been really hitting a human being and never your punchbag.”
Video footage captured by cameras Latoszewski had put in of their residence with a view to management Sebastian confirmed extended beatings, with {the teenager} crying and screaming. Sebastian was additionally stabbed with a needle a number of instances by Latoszewski and Kalinowska.
The boy was pressured to do workouts equivalent to push-ups and to take a seat going through the wall for hours.
The footage additionally captured Latoszewski, who used steroids, parading round the home and himself within the mirror between assaults, whereas Kalinowska sat watching TV.
Different proof proven to the court docket included textual content messages the place Kalinowska requested Latoszewski to come back again and “beat the shit” out of Sebastian. The pair additionally mentioned easy methods to torture him with out leaving marks on his physique.
He died of sepsis on 13 August 2021, attributable to 23 rib fractures, after Kalinowska and Latoszewski waited two-and-a-half hours to name an ambulance after discovering the boy unconscious.
The pathologist discovered 81 accidents on Sebastian’s physique. Dr Michael Parsons stated a few of his accidents would usually be seen solely in automobile crash victims.
The proof within the trial was so distressing that jurors have been discharged from jury service for all times by the decide, who stated their service had been “past the decision of obligation”.
After the sentencing, the lead investigator on the case, DCI Tony Nicholson of West Yorkshire police, described it as “doubtless essentially the most harrowing case I’ve skilled in my 29 years as a police officer”.
He added: “Latoszewski and Kalinowska abused this boy in a way which was depraved and evil, and we might by no means know why they selected to behave on this inhuman manner.”
Employees at Sebastian’s college described {the teenager}, who got here to the UK in 2020 from Poland, as a “pretty boy” who was “shy”, “quiet” and “at all times nice.”