Elzbieta Kinczyk murder: Jury sees items found near suspect’s house

Moczulski, 26, of Newgale Walk, Sydenham, denies murdering 23-year-old mother Elzbieta Kinczyk, who went missing on June 6 last year.

Ms Kinczyk’s badly decomposed body was found in Windmill Hill Lane Lane near Chesterton on June 16.

She had been raped and clubbed to death.

No traces of blood or DNA were found on the bar to identify it as the murder weapon.

When shown the object on the fifth day of Moczulski’s trial at Warwick Crown Court today (Friday) Paul Cooke, the retail and facilities manager at the Welcome Break service station on the M40 near Warwick where Moczulski had been working as a cleaner last summer, said: “I can remember sitting down with the police and immediately I was drawn to the photo of this and I can identify it immediately.

“It belongs to part of one of the display stands for retail use and it belongs to a unit at the site.

“I was quite horrified when I found the stand and found part of it was missing.

“I believe one of the straight arms was missing as well.”

Police searched the area around Moczulski’s house on June 17 around the second time he had been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Along with the metal bar, officers also found heavy duty gloves, paper towels, blue latex gloves and six bin liners which had all be split down one side to make sheets.

Mr Cooke confirmed the latex gloves were identical to the type which are used by the service station’s staff or available to customers on request and that the same type of paper towels and bin liners are also used at the services.

Yellow heavy duty gloves of the same type found by the police were also available to be bought by customers or used by staff although Mr Cooke was unable to confirm as to when the station stopped stocking this particular colour.

The jury heard how the service station’s staff entrance and emergency exit connects to Windmill Hill Lane.

Swipe card records showed that Moczulski completed his 5pm to 1am shift on June 6.

But on June 14 the defendant cut his shift short, clocking in at about 5pm and clocking out about two hours later.

The jury heard that the defendant had given no explanation for his absence.

Moczulski also worked an early shift from about 6.30am to 2.30pm on the day Ms Kinckzy’s body was found.

Prosecutor Mark Dennis QC asked Mr Cooke if employees were free to walk off the site when taking a break.

Mr Cooke said: “We do like everyone on their breaks to remain in the grounds for safety reasons.

“However, it is not monitored so if anyone was to leave the site we wouldn’t necessarily know.”

The case continues.