Sky News - Breaking News - Three Found Guilty Of Graduate's Murder

A Polish factory worker murdered his British girlfriend after hatching a plot with his jealous secret lover and her uncle, a jury has decided.

Rafal Nowak, 31, killed his girlfriend Catherine Wells-Burr as she slept at the couple's new home in Chard, Somerset.

His lover Anna Lagwinowicz, 32, and her uncle, Tadevsz Dmytryszyn, 38, then helped him dump Miss Wells-Burr's body in her car at a nearby roadside and set fire to it.

A jury at Bristol Crown Court convicted Nowak, Lagwinowicz and Dmytryszyn of the 23-year-old business analyst's murder in September 2012. They will be sentenced on Monday.

The Bath Spa University graduate died as a result of a plot driven by revenge, jealousy and greed.

With her death the three defendants would secure a £123,000 life insurance payout and a half share of a £137,000 two-bedroom house.

The murder was the result of months of secret meetings and phone calls between Nowak and Lagwinowicz, with Miss Wells-Burr oblivious to what was going on.

Nowak smothered a sleeping Miss Wells-Burr with a pillow, before Lagwinowicz and Dmytryszyn removed her body from the house and drove it in her red Ford Focus to a beauty spot at Ashill.

They placed the victim in the driver's seat and set fire to the car at 6am - 20 minutes after Nowak had clocked into work - providing him with what he thought was the perfect alibi.

The defendants had spent months leaving a false trail for detectives, creating fake profiles for Miss Wells-Burr on adult websites and sending texts to her phone from a supposed mystery lover.

Nowak, of Willow Way, Chard, Lagwinowicz, of South Street, Taunton, and Dmytryszyn, of Holway Avenue, Taunton, denied having any part in the death during their trial.

But the jury, who sat through seven weeks of harrowing evidence, found the trio guilty of murder having seen through their web of lies.

Members of Miss Wells-Burr's family wept in court as the verdicts were announced. The three murderers showed no emotion.

During the trial, a heavily-tattooed Nowak wept in the witness box as he insisted he played no part in the death of his "true love".

But the cheating factory worker - who continued to have sex with Lagwinowicz while dating Miss Wells-Burr - failed to provide the court with any other explanation for how his girlfriend could have died.

The father-of-one, who has a wife and teenage son in his native Poland, told the jury: "Everyone blames me for something that I never done."

The court heard how Nowak showed no emotion at all when police discovered Miss Wells-Burr's body in her burnt out car on the morning of September 12.

Her mother, Jayne Wells-Burr, told the jury that he "didn't mention Catherine at all" - instead asking for a steak dinner after his initial release from police custody.

Lagwinowicz, who frequently shook her head and laughed in the dock when Nowak suggested she had been responsible for the killing, refused to take to the witness stand.

Dmytryszyn did not give evidence in his defence during the trial either.

Speaking after the verdicts, Miss Wells-Burr's parents called for tougher immigration controls.

Phil and Jayne Wells-Burr, who are no longer together, said Nowak - who has a conviction for assaulting his wife in Poland - would not have been allowed into the UK had this country's immigration rules been as strict as the those in the US.

Mrs Wells-Burr, 46, said: "There is no screening of people coming into this country.

"I kind of think this Government needs to wake up a bit."

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