A jury has found Pawel Relowicz guilty of raping and murdering Libby Squire.
Jurors at Sheffield Crown Court returned the majority verdict on its sixth day of deliberations.
The court heart how Relowicz picked up a drunk and distressed Libby after she was denied entry at student nightclub in Hull two years ago, before she disappeared.
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After leaving The Welly Nightclub on 31st January, 2019, 21-year-old Libby was picked up by Pawel, 26, before being raped and murdered near the Oak Road playing fields.
Libby's body was found in the Humber Estuary close to Spurn Point on March 20th, nearly two months after she first went missing.
During the trial, Libby's family were forced to endure speculation about her mental health and even suggestions she'd committed suicide by throwing herself into the River Hull.
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Footage shown at Pawel's trial is thought to have captured the precise moment he spotted Libby, as she was sat on her own on Beverley Road.
The Sheffield Crown Court heard that Pawel walked in and out of shadows in an attempt to avoid alerting Libby's suspicions, with the prosecution explaining he "stalked" Libby from the opposite side of the street before "darting" over to intercept her.
During the trial, detective constable Claire Jackson, of Humberside Police, read a transcript of Pawel's first interviews after he was arrested on suspicion of the abduction of Libby.
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When quizzed about Libby's whereabouts, he said: "I don't know? How am I supposed to know?
"I know nothing and this is the whole truth. I haven't kidnapped anybody, this isn't kidnapping is it?"
Pawel initially told police that he saw Libby as he planned to go for a run that evening, and then offered to give her a lift home.
"I feel sorry for the girl because she was crying," he said. "I walked past the girl and she says to me 'Stop please'. She said 'I need help'. And I was asking 'What's up?'
"She went 'I need to go home, I need my mother' and she was crying, she was all in tears. She was drunk and it seems to me that either she had been taking something or somebody had given her something. She was behaving strangely."
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Pawel, who shares two young sons with his wife of six years, had previously insisted he played no part in Libby's disappearance.
"I don't know anything that happened later," he said. "I am not guilty of anything and I have nothing to do with her disappearance and what happened to her.
"For half the night yesterday, I kept thinking what would I do if my son or wife had been kidnapped? I know it's hard for them but I haven't done anything wrong and I am innocent."
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