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- NARRATOR: May the 22nd, 1997, Hammersmith, London.

46-year-old Trajce Koneva cycled home to meet

his 12-year-old daughter, Katerina.

It was the first time the schoolgirl had ever been

home alone.

- DR. YARDLEY: Her father tried to phone her

and she wasn't answering

and he became quite worried so he rushed back home.

And when he arrived he, couldn't get into the house.

He sees a pair of man's shoes underneath the door

and this causes him concern because there's somebody

in his home who shouldn't be there.

- He starts to bang on the door with all his might,

he shoves it, he kicks it, he cannot open it.

Consumed by fear, he is horrified at what could be

happening to his beloved daughter.

- NARRATOR: Realizing the intruder was escaping, Trajce

chased after him and came face to face with

Andrzej Kunowski, an illegal immigrant from Poland.

Trajce didn't know it but he was looking

into the eyes of his daughter's murderer.

- DAVID: Kunowski was a cold-blooded criminal,

he had no respect for human life,

he had no respect for young girls,

he had no respect for the law.

- NARRATOR: Katerina's father chased after Kunowski

but the callous killer fled.

A European manhunt was already in force searching

for the fugitive who was wanted for charges

of sexual assaults and rapes on women and young girls

in Poland.

- Kunowski was known as The Beast, seldom has

a nickname been deserved more.

- NARRATOR: He was a prolific pedophile

and sexual predator who attacked vulnerable victims

for almost three decades and would go on to take

the life of a 12-year-old girl.

This makes Andrzej Kunowski

one of the world's most evil killers.

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- NARRATOR: May the 22nd, 1997, Hammersmith,

West London, England.

The country was in shock when news broke

that a 12-year-old schoolgirl had been brutally murdered

in her own home.

Katerina Koneva was followed home from school

by a prolific sex offender and pedofile,

41-year-old Andrzej Kunowski.

- GEOFFREY: She was beautiful, talented, promising,

and to snuff out her life was an act of inconceivable

brutality, barbarity of the worst kind.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski was a wanted Polish national

who'd entered the UK illegally less than seven months

before the brutal murder.

He left his mark on Senior Investigating Officer,

David Little.

- Kunowski was actually probably one of the worst people

I've ever dealt with in my time

mainly 'cause he was so prolific.

- NARRATOR: The MET Police worked tirelessly to identify

Katerina's killer.

In doing so they would also bring to justice a criminal

who was wanted for a string of heinous crimes in Poland.

Journalist Szymon Wyrostek was a young boy at the time

of Kunowski's crimes in Poland.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- MALE INTERPRETER: He's still remembered in our town.

He was a very dangerous criminal and an utterly

depraved man.

He had no regard for human life, people were there

to satisfy his wild, animalistic urges.

- DAVID: He had no remorse at all, and there was nothing

that could stop him, basically,

apart from being incarcerated.

- NARRATOR: This killer's story begins in Warsaw,

Poland.

Andrzej Miroslav Klembert was born

on March the 29th, 1956.

Warsaw had suffered heavily during the Second World War

and this post-war period was a difficult time

for the country.

Young Andrzej didn't have the easiest of childhoods.

- His parents were petty criminals; at the age of two,

he went to a foster home because both of his parents

went to prison.

His grandfather, we understand,

was in a psychiatric ward or sexual offences as well.

- He went into the institutional care system and I think

by the time he was returned to his mother quite a lot

of damage had been done.

- NARRATOR: After leaving prison Andrzej's mother

met and married builder Stefan Kunowski.

Andrzej took his stepfather's surname and the family

set up home in Mlawa, a small town 80 miles north

of Warsaw.

At first, family life appeared to be normal.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: As a child Kunowski was quite short,

a bit overweight, he was teased by his classmates

and he struggled to fit in.

I think this had an impact on his psyche.

- PAUL: He was a bit of a mother's boy, but he had

a ferocious temper and he used to respond to the taunts

with explosions of anger and violence.

- NARRATOR: As well as a violent tendency, as he grew older,

Kunowski became fascinated with local girls

which unnerved those around him.

- GEOFFREY: His mother begins to sense that there's something

in the adolescent Kunowski that is a little unusual.

She was to say later that he developed an unhealthy

appetite for sex, an unnatural sexual desire.

- NARRATOR: Age 13, he first came to the attention

of the authorities for stealing.

- Theft and those kind of property offenses are all

about a sense of entitlement they are about wanting

something and just going and taking it, regardless

of the impact on others.

So this is a very early warning sign for me.

- NARRATOR: As punishment, Kunowski was sent

to juvenile detention.

- I think it would have been a bit of a learning experience

for him but not a positive one.

I think he would have been learning from his peers

who had also committed offenses.

I think he's becoming a slightly more skilled criminal

in the time that he's there.

- NARRATOR: By the age of 17, Kunowski had moved

back into the family home but soon reverted to his

thieving ways and would steal money from his mother.

His disturbing preoccupation with local girls

had also continued.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Few people knew what the monster

in their neighborhood was hiding, some women said

there was something strange in his eyes.

- GEOFFREY: He was the sort of boy that a girl would probably

not look at twice.

But at the age of 17 he clearly felt some kind

of profound sexual urge and decides to attack a neighbor's

16-year-old daughter.

He drags her into the bushes and rapes her.

- DR. YARDLEY: This is a very early age to be committing

this kind of offense and it's very important that we realize

that you don't go from a healthy individual one day,

with normal psychological functioning,

to a rapist the next,

there would have been an escalation of behavior.

- NARRATOR: The 16-year-old victim was able

to identify her neighbor Kunowski as her rapist.

Two other local girls also came forward, having been

attacked in similar circumstances, and one

of these was added to the indictment against Kunowski.

He was sentenced to three years in prison.

It would be the first rape conviction of many.

- GEOFFREY: In 1976,

he's released from prison, he's now 20.

He's spruced himself up a bit, given to dressing quite well.

- PAUL: He also earned the nickname of Little Doctor,

which involved his rather exaggerated habit

of clicking his heels

and slightly bowing whenever he met someone.

- GEOFFREY: But don't let anyone be fooled by that, this is a man

who has nothing in mind but rape.

Within a month he commits the next attack, this time

it's a 24-year-old woman.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski was apprehended

and returned to prison for another nine months

for the rape.

However, it was only a temporary respite

for the community.

- GEOFFREY: He was only sentenced

to nine months' imprisonment.

A young man who's already served three years in prison

for rape--was that not taken into account?

Was there no suggestion that perhaps we have

the beginnings of a serial rapist on our hands?

- NARRATOR: Once again, prison time didn't curb

the devious sexual desires in Kunowski, instead, it only

seemed to ignite them, and the 22-year-old

went on to attack more women and young girls

in the area.

- In 1978 he committed rapes in June, July, August,

September, October, and November,

sometimes, on one occasion, up to four rapes in a month.

He was totally prolific and probably felt he was

untouchable.

- [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Kunowski would typically attack a woman

and then choke her.

He had a specific method to lure his victims in.

First, he would call out to a woman from his car

and as she'd approach him and lean in

he would wind up the window, trapping her.

He would then approach her from behind

and very brutally rape her.

His victims were extremely intimidated and later

couldn't remember his face.

Which shows just how brutal and how aggressive

this monster, The Beast from Mlawa, was.

- NARRATOR: By the end of 1978, Kunowski had

brutally attacked at least 24 victims.

On the 22nd of December, he forced a girl into a cellar

holding a razor to her ear before raping her.

She was just 11 years old.

- Kunowski's record is one of escalation, as he grows older

with more experience of how he can get away

with these attacks and with better opportunities,

he can spot for these attacks,

and it also reflects his mounting lust.

It's an escalating graph of him getting more, and more,

and more dangerous.

- NARRATOR: In January, 1979, his reign of terror halted

when authorities convicted Kunowski for some

of the rapes he'd committed during the previous year.

But being behind bars in a male prison still didn't

stop him offending.

- DAVID: He was a very prolific sex offender, he had also

raped a cellmate in prison, he had no remorse whatsoever.

- NARRATOR: In April, 1979 Kunowski was almost

three months into a sentence at Warszawa Wola

Detention Prison, Poland, for a series of brutal rapes

on young girls and women.

Bored of prison life, Kunowski didn't intend to stay

behind bars, he was planning a great escape.

- Kunowski's in prison and decides that he wishes not to be

and saws through the bars of his cell to get out.

It almost defies belief, I mean, here is a serial rapist

who seems to be able to escape at will.

Needless to say, no sooner has he done so,

than he rapes again.

- NARRATOR: On the 8th of May, 1979,

police intercepted him 85 miles away in the city of Lodz.

Desperate to avoid re-arrest,

Kunowski took a young girl hostage with an axe.

After a tense standoff, police succeeded in bringing him

back into custody.

And after three months he was transferred

to a psychiatric hospital in Prusków,

but once again he managed to free himself.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: He saws through the bars of the

psychiatric hospital and breaks out.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski stole two cars

and fled across the country.

But he was eventually pursued by the police

and crashed one of the stolen cars into a house

near Jadów.

He was immediately arrested and taken back into custody

on the morning of August the 24th, 1979.

There, he awaited trial.

- DR. YARDLEY: Prison is just a bit of a revolving door for him

at this point in his life.

When he's spending time in prison he's learning

from other people, he's ruminating, he's fantasizing,

he's planning his next attack

because that's all that matters to him.

- NARRATOR: Authorities took a tougher stance in 1980,

when Kunowski was faced with over 70 charges,

predominantly for sex offenses and rape against

women and children.

The litany of charges also included escape

from a police convoy and attempted murder.

- Finally his crimes catch up with him and he's effectively

sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

- NARRATOR: On hearing the verdict, the prosecutor,

Valdemas Marczewski said he'd hoped to separate

Kunowski from society for longer, as he was certain

he would go on to rape again,

perhaps even start killing.

Five years later, an additional 15 years were added

in recognition of the brutality Kunowski had shown

to one of his young victims.

Kunowski was now facing 30 years behind bars.

- DR. YARDLEY: At this point in Poland's history, their prisons

are massively overcrowded, the actual conditions

in these prisons would have been absolutely horrendous.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski was desperate to get out

and wrote to the Polish authorities.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: He claims that his cell mates treated

him badly, that they humiliated him psychologically

and physically, that he was beaten.

At some point his teeth got knocked out.

Kunowski complains that he had his throat slit.

- NARRATOR: While Kunowski's letters had no effect,

a momentous announcement by the Polish parliament

in 1989 would have a significant impact

on the 33-year-old's future.

To mark the end of communism, an amnesty act was passed,

which resulted in the reduction of prison sentences.

Kunowski used this to his advantage.

On the 17th of January, 1990 the court in Osten delivered

a decision allowing him to be considered for parole.

He walked free the following year after demonstrating

good behavior.

- DR. YARDLEY: There was an absolute failure on the part of

the Polish criminal justice system because he

was a serial offender and when somebody is constantly

making that decision time and time again to harm

other people they're not going to simply decide to stop

one day.

- NARRATOR: Despite his criminal background,

Kunowski's family were keen to help their son get back

on his feet.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: With the help of his family he bought

himself a delivery van, and he was living in a flat

which his parents bought him on Tuwima Street in Mlawa.

Kunowski started training at the local market,

there he met a woman

who would become his future partner.

What the woman had in common with his victims

is a considerable age difference,

she was ten years his junior.

They would go on to have a daughter together.

- [speaking Polish]

- NARRATOR: However, despite setting up home

with his partner and her six-year-old son, Kunowski

still couldn't contain his devious and aggressive behavior

and continued to prey upon vulnerable women

without his partner's knowledge.

She soon became aware of his violent tendencies.

- GEOFFREY: Eventually, he attacks her,

and also, for good measure, he attacks her son.

Trying to be someone conventional

and respectable

simply doesn't suit Kunowski's character.

Underneath that polished exterior is a poisonous toad

of a little man who thinks nothing of destroying women

and anyone he may come across.

- NARRATOR: The relationship broke down

and Kunowski's partner left him.

She would soon discover she was pregnant,

and vowed to protect the child, a baby girl, from him.

Meanwhile Kunowski had become obsessed with a new

type of victim, so-called latchkey children.

- DR. YARDLEY: At this point in his offending history

he begins to target young girls

who are home alone, latchkey children.

Their mum, their dad might be out at work and they

are in the house on their own.

Now, this is really significant for me because he's starting

to engage in some kind of stalking behavior and so

this does suggest to me that his offending is becoming

more sophisticated and he's becoming a lot more dangerous.

- NARRATOR: Soon reports of school children being attacked

spread in and around the county of Mlawa

and as far away as Warsaw.

Parents were terrified of leaving their children alone.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: At the time, I was in primary school.

My classmates and I were accompanied to the nearby school

by our parents or grandparents.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Where we were allowed to go was restricted.

At that time I didn't know his name, I just knew

that he was an older man.

We were told that if we saw a man acting strange,

we should scream and go straight home.

- NARRATOR: In 1992, Kunowski continued to prey

on vulnerable children in both Mlawa and Warsaw.

Despite being arrested several times, by 1995

he was free to resume his attacks on young girls.

Targeting an 11-year-old in February

and abducting another in March.

On May the 16th that year, he struck again.

- GEOFFREY: Kunowski is on the streets of Warsaw,

and once again targets a young girl coming back

from school.

He watches her, sees that she lets herself in to her flat

with a latchkey, there doesn't appear to be anyone in

except her.

He knocks on the door, forces his way in and then

engages her in a conversation, which is bizarre to say

the least, in which, "Can you keep a secret?"

he says to her.

She's obviously slightly bewildered by all this.

And then he asks her to kiss him and then of course

he starts to suffocate her, he pulls her blouse over her head

and he attacks her.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski then fled the scene,

and the 10-year-old girl bravely raised the alarm.

- She shouts, screams after him and he is in fact caught.

- NARRATOR: Linking other similar crimes in the area,

the police were able to put Kunowski on trial.

The primary charge was rape of an 11-year-old girl.

There was great interest from the local media.

- SZYMON: [speaking Polish]

- INTERPRETER: Journalists named Kunowski The Beast

from Mlawa, a very appropriate description

when it comes to Kunowski.

- NARRATOR: It seemed that justice would finally

be served however there was to be a twist of fate.

- Kunowski pulls one of the great stunts, he persuades

the prison authorities that he's got a very sore left hip

and that it very badly inhibits his movement.

It is complete and utter balderdash,

but nevertheless, the Little Doctor is quite convincing.

- DAVID: In June, 1996 he was actually released from prison

on three months' parole in order to get a hip operation.

And he was left free to go and sort it out for himself.

- NARRATOR: The man named The Beast never did

have his operation.

Instead he embarked on a 1,000-mile trip,

he was London-bound.

- I think Kunowski reaches the point where he realizes

he needs a blank slate so I think there is that urge

in him to start somewhere else and to start looking

for a new victim pool.

- In his last years in Poland, the press had taken

to giving him a nickname, "The Beast."

Well, The Beast had arrived in England and it was only

a matter of time before he would strike again.

- DAVID: He arrived in October, 1996, at Victoria Station.

From that moment on he just disappeared into the UK.

As an illegal immigrant he was totally below the radar

and because of that his DNA was not taken, his fingerprints

were not taken, we had no knowledge of who Kunowski was.

- PAUL: At that time there was tens of thousands

of European people arriving.

It was impossible for the authorities to keep track

of this and very easy for Kunowski to disappear

into the subculture of London, where jobs are paid

cash-in-hand, where rent is paid cash-in-hand,

and no questions are asked.

- GEOFFREY: The fact that he is an illegal immigrant

with a disgusting record of crime in his native Poland

is known to no one.

- PAUL: It's difficult to imagine Kunowski could even had

stood out in a crowd, he was just an everyday bloke

in the street.

And in the accommodation in which he flitted between,

in various bedsits and flats, people were coming and going.

It was a perfect cover for him to get up to what he wanted

to do and to resume his attacks on women.

- NARRATOR: Just seven months after arriving in the UK,

Kunowski's perverse desire for attacking children

was once again ignited.

He was on the prowl for another victim and the

41-year-old reverted to a familiar M.O., following

so-called latchkey children home from school

in the knowledge that they would be alone.

And it wasn't long before he struck again.

- PAUL: Kunowski had spotted Katerina Koneva.

I suspect that he did his homework and that he knew

that she left school and would arrive back at her flat

in Hammersmith.

- DAVID: Katerina was a 12-year-old girl

who'd come over from Macedonia with both of her parents,

Trajce and Jackie, and her younger brother.

She was studying at Holland Park School, she was

well-liked, she was a bubbly young girl.

Her family were here to learn English and to escape

from Macedonia, effectively, as they wanted a better life.

- NARRATOR: On May the 22nd, 1997, as Katerina

made her way home from school she couldn't know

she was being followed.

- DR. YARDLEY: This is very similar

to the offense that we know of in Poland,

so this would have been planned because this

would have involved some kind of stalking.

And I've heard stalking described as

murder in slow motion and that's exactly what it is in this case.

- NARRATOR: When the 12-year-old arrived at her flat,

Kunowski was close behind.

In a twist of fate this was the first time Katerina

had ever been home alone.

- Her dad should have been at home but unfortunately

he was delayed at his English lessons

and so he was late.

Katerina went home from school as normal,

let herself in, and we assume that Kunowski

knocked on her door, there was no sign of forced entry at all,

and the door was locked internally after he'd entered

the house.

- GEOFFREY: I think she would have opened the door,

she was a trusting young girl.

What she was doing, however, was letting in a monster.

He takes her into the living room of the flat and barricades

the door with a chair.

- PAUL: From that moment, inside the flat, what happened

between killer and victim only the killer knows.

But he clearly had grabbed her and began to choke her

with a cord he found to hand.

Pushing her down and choking her at the same time

as he attacked her.

She must have been screaming, but in a flat

at that time of the day, no one could hear it.

- NARRATOR: At some point Katerina's father, Tracje,

had returned home but the door was locked

from the inside and Katerina did not answer.

Becoming concerned, Tracje looked through the letterbox.

- He saw Katerina lying on the floor, he then saw

beneath the door, basically what he describes as

two black shoes.

He then obviously realized that something was wrong.

- GEOFFREY: He's horrified, he starts to bang on the door

with all his might, he shoves it, he kicks it,

he cannot open it.

Consumed by fear, he is horrified at what could be

happening to his beloved daughter.

- DAVID: Whilst that was happening he became aware that

the person inside had moved to the front of the house,

effectively, and naturally assumed that the person

was leaving by the first-floor window.

So he ran downstairs and out to the front and saw

Kunowski actually coming out of the window

and land in the front garden.

He then confronted Kunowski,

who just basically stared at him.

- NARRATOR: Getting his first look at the intruder,

Tracje noticed a spot of blood on his face.

As Kunowski fled the scene, Tracje had only a split second

to plan his next move.

His instinct was to chase after him.

- As they went down the street Kunowski turned

and shouted to passersby, "Help me, help me!"

And two workmen could see that something

was happening here and decided to intervene.

- DR. YARDLEY: He's actually making out that he's the victim,

that somebody's after him, and passersby in the streets

basically help him.

- NARRATOR: The well-meaning members of the public

held Tracje back, allowing Kunowski to get a head start.

Tracje managed to break free and continued the pursuit.

The chase came to an abrupt halt when Kunowski

pulled out a knife.

Surrendering, Tracje rushed back to check on his daughter.

- After Kunowski had run away from Tracje, he wanted

to get away from the scene of the crime as fast

as he possibly could.

There was a young lady driving her car

down the street at the time, he stopped in front of her

and threatened her with a knife and made her

get out of her car.

- NARRATOR: He sped off in the hijacked vehicle

before abandoning it half a mile away

on Shepherd's Bush Road.

He then boarded a bus destined for Hammersmith Broadway.

- He gets off the bus and disappears into the crowd.

Once again in the wind, beneath the radar.

- NARRATOR: With Kunowski on the run, Tracje had made it

back to his flat.

The scene behind the door would devastate

his family's life forever.

- PAUL: When he came back he had to break the door down

to get in past the barricades that Kunowski had across

the door, and there found his daughter with this cord

so tight around her neck, lying on the floor.

He was trying desperately to pull at this cord

and he couldn't manage it so he went to the kitchen

to get a kitchen knife to try and cut it open.

- DAVID: He was screaming for help, obviously,

and one of the neighbors went to help him, police were called.

- And by the time they arrived he was desperately

trying to revive her.

Paramedics took over, but without any success.

- NARRATOR: Katerina had been murdered.

The cause of the 12-year-old's death was strangulation.

The police needed to act fast to find the culprit.

- Most killings happen in a domestic scene and often

it's the last person or the person there who turns out

to be the killer.

- Unfortunately Tracje has to be considered as a suspect

and was being questioned as such.

- The first time his wife finds him, he is a prisoner.

Her daughter is dead and her husband is accused

of killing her.

The impact on her must have been devastating.

- NARRATOR: With no witnesses to the murder itself,

police appeal to the local community

for information.

Seven people would come forward having witnessed the chase

but their evidence had flaws.

A number of the witnesses had assumed that Kunowski

was actually a victim being chased and so descriptions

of him became muddled with descriptions of Tracje.

The police were no closer to catching the actual killer.

Whilst police artists worked to produce a composite sketch

of the man seen running away detectives

had a stroke of luck when a local builder's yard checked

their security camera.

- There is CCTV evidence of the two running past

an alleyway, first Kunowski and then, obviously, being...

chased by Tracje.

- NARRATOR: The CCTV proved Tracje's claims

that he had chased an intruder away from his home.

At the murder scene,

forensic teams found two significant clues.

- GEOFFREY: One was a fingerprint on the windowsill

which did not belong to any member of the family.

The other was a single hair on a cardigan of Katerina's.

- NARRATOR: But there was one major obstacle.

- Kunowski's fingerprints weren't on file anywhere

in Britain and so any conventional method

of trying to find the offender using either fingerprints

or DNA wasn't available.

Kunowski was a ghost.

- NARRATOR: Detectives working to create a profile

of the murderer couldn't begin to guess the true

depravity of this killer, or how widespread

his crimes were.

- DR. YARDLEY: It was inevitable that Kunowski was going to kill

because he enjoyed the feelings of power,

he felt that he was entitled to do what he wanted

with his victims.

- NARRATOR: Once again Kunowski was at large.

The killer moved towards the West Midlands seeking

employment in fruit farms, but he soon went back

to his thieving ways.

- It wasn't long before he had his fingers in the till

and he was arrested for stealing from his employer.

He clearly thought he was bulletproof.

- NARRATOR: When police examined Kunowski's forged passport

they discovered his visa had expired,

and he was detained in Oxfordshire

on immigration offenses.

The murder of Katerina one month earlier

still remained unsolved.

And whilst forensic evidence had been taken

from the murder scene, there was no match on the national

DNA database.

Immigration officials didn't know they had a killer

in custody and the killer had no intention of waiting

to be caught.

- Had the law at that time allowed the immigration

authorities to take a DNA sample from someone

they suspected was an illegal immigrant they would

have been able to say to the police in Hammersmith

that the man they had in their custody was actually

the man who had murdered Katerina.

- NARRATOR: Unaware that they had a killer in custody,

immigration authorities granted Kunowski

temporary release whilst his case was being considered.

- PAUL: He was in need of a new identity,

so when he was released from the detention center,

he managed to procure a fake Portugese passport

and of course, again, it put another distance

between himself and his criminal past.

- NARRATOR: In September, 1997, Kunowski's application

was turned down and he appealed.

The serial escapee had no intention of returning

for his immigration hearing.

By the time the appeal was rejected in December, 1997,

he had disappeared.

He would live life under the radar for the next four years.

- DAVID: I have no idea where he was for those years.

He was using aliases, he may have been arrested

and dealt with under another name somewhere else

totally different.

But I find it inconceivable that he did not commit

other offenses.

- NARRATOR: In 2001, four years after

the brutal killing of Katerina,

Kunowski had made his way back to West London.

- GEOFFREY: Kunowski's brass neck knew no bounds,

he even registers with the NHS

under his assumed name of Dias,

for a heart bypass operation.

It's breathtaking audacity.

- NARRATOR: The following year, after a period

of recuperation, The Beast was fighting-fit and back

on the streets of West London.

- Now he's living in a room in Acton working part time

as a tailor, little odd jobs here and there.

And yet again targeting vulnerable young women.

At one point, he's hovering outside Ealing Broadway

Underground Station

and he spies a young Korean woman, 21,

looking at a board which has advertisements

for rooms to let.

- DAVID: He went up to her, offered her assistance,

told her that he would help her find somewhere to live,

she'd not long been in the country and her English

was actually very distorted.

So he offered to take her back to where he was staying,

his bedsit, and help her find accomodation.

- DR. YARDLEY: When Kunowski decided to lure this student

back to his flat, I think there was

an intention to kill, because he'd killed before,

I think he'd enjoyed killing before,

he'd gotten away with it before.

So I think there was a real arrogance in him

at this point in time.

- Once he got her to his bedsit he overpowered her,

tied her up, and raped her.

- Kunowski was now at the height of his brutality

as an experienced sexual predator and brutal

in his aggression against women.

And he attacked this Korean student with a frenzy.

- To actually be taken, tied up in somebody else's home

and then raped is a horrendous ordeal.

She was estranged to the country, she'd not long been

in this country, she'd thought she'd been befriended

by somebody who was going to help her.

He abused that trust, he abused her.

- NARRATOR: During the three-hour ordeal

the defenseless student's survival instincts kicked in.

- DR. YARDLEY: This young woman, she was very smart, she was able

to basically talk her way out of it, but she was able

to say to him, "Well, it's okay, I'll call you tomorrow,"

or, "I want to see you again."

So she was appealing to a kind of inherent narcissism

within him.

And it saved her life, it was an incredibly brave thing to do.

- Kunowski, in his vanity and arrogance, thought that

would be alright and that she would actually phone him

the following day.

The young Korean woman goes straight to the police.

For the first time Kunowski's made a real blunder.

- NARRATOR: By committing the offense in his own flat,

Kunowski had effectively led police to his front door.

However, the police still had no idea this was

Katerina's killer.

In May, 2003 he was convicted of the rape

and received nine years imprisonment

at HMP Belmarsh.

When officials took Kunowski's DNA it sparked some

interesting developments.

- GEOFFREY: A number of things have happened,

his DNA is on file, his fingerprints are on file.

The review of Katerina's killing is initiated,

and lo and behold, the DNA matches.

- The most damning DNA evidence was the DNA

on the hair on Katerina's cardigan and also a fingerprint

as Kunowski jumped out of the window.

Both of those are irrefutable, absolute pieces of evidence.

- PAUL: When MET found that they had not just a rapist

but a significant murderer in a case that they hadn't

been able to solve for six years, they then checked

in international files.

And suddenly it flashed up, to the astonishment

of the London detectives, that Kunowski had

this massive record for two decades of attacks

in Poland.

- The Polish authorities were very helpful

with their assistance and the DNA proved that he'd committed

offenses in Poland as well.

- NARRATOR: The trial for the murder of Katerina Koneva

began at The Old Bailey in March, 2004.

Both Senior Investigating Officer David Little

and Court Correspondent, Paul Cheston witnessed

the proceedings.

- It was a very emotional trial because the family,

both Tracje and Jackie, were obviously very upset

about what had happened.

- PAUL: Tragedy on this nature, a particularly violent murder

in a family, often has the most destructive effect,

they almost turn on themselves in a way.

And Katerina's mother and father split up.

- Unfortunately, in every case where a child or anybody

has been murdered, the family assume a degree of guilt,

absolutely incorrectly.

Tracje expected to be home before he was.

Jackie expected Tracje to be home for their daughter

arriving home.

Between the two of them they both harbored a degree

of guilt for what had happened.

- NARRATOR: Tracje was face to face with his daughter's

killer once again.

But this time he had to give evidence of that fateful day

and the heartbreaking decision he made.

- PAUL: The moment that had the most impact on me was just

how he explained how he'd stumbled across this attack

on his own daughter in his own flat and was confronted

with the two-horned dilemma of: chase the attacker

or tend to his stricken daughter.

And that was explained in his own words through

a whole veil of tears in his eyes and choking in his throat,

it was heartrending evidence from the witness box.

- NARRATOR: The heartless killer, Kunowski,

appeared unmoved.

- DAVID: When Kunowski was in the docket court he showed

no remorse, he just stayed there, listened to the evidence

totally without any emotion whatsoever.

- NARRATOR: It took the jury of four women and eight men

less than three hours to decide.

Kunowski was found guilty of Katerina's murder

and sentenced to life imprisonment

by the Common Serjeant of London Judge Peter Beaumont QC.

- Sentencing Kunowski for the murder of Katerina

the judge said, and I quote, "You took the life of a child

"who was just beginning to enjoy what this country

"had to offer.

"It was a life of great promise and you ended it

in circumstances of great violence and terror."

- NARRATOR: Kunowski's sentence was bittersweet

for Katerina's parents.

- DAVID: They'd lost their daughter,

a 12-year-old girl.

At the time of conviction Tracje felt there was closure

and it had been dealt with. Jackie didn't.

She felt cheated, she just felt that nothing could be done

to make amends for what he had done.

- NARRATOR: Whilst Kunowski began his sentence

at HMP Frankland, Europe's media descended

on the small village of Mlawa.

- GEOFFREY: In Poland, Kunowski's mother

is, naturally, approached by the media,

and she confesses that she never thought

that he was entirely normal but refuses

to accept that he actually is a monster.

- NARRATOR: Kunowski wasn't in prison for long.

Five years into his life sentence,

he died of heart failure in the Durham Prison, aged 53.

- When we discovered that Kunowski had died in prison

the first thing we did was to go and tell the families.

And I do know that Jackie felt cheated by his death,

she wanted him to burn in hell, she said.

She did feel that he'd got the easy way out.

- NARRATOR: Even after his death countless victims

are still living a life sentence imposed by him.

- INTERPRETER: This kind of experience had an impact

on these people,

it changed their life and behavior entirely.

- DAVID: He continually offended whilst he was at large

and I'm certain he must have committed other offenses.

- GEOFFREY: We cannot know how dangerous Kunowski was.

This was, literally, a predator on the loose.

He could have committed literally hundreds of attacks

and we shall never ever know for sure.

- NARRATOR: He was a prolific sex offender and pedophile

who caused torment and fear across Europe for almost

three decades before taking the life of a bright,

young girl who had her whole future ahead of her.

He showed no remorse for any of his actions

and that's what makes Andrzej Kunowski

one of the world's most evil killers.

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