Engagement Ring Saves Woman Buried Alive
A polish woman has told a West Yorkshire court that she used her diamond ring to escape death after being buried alive by her fiancée.
Michelina Lewandowska is accusing her partner Marcin Kasprzak of using a taser on her, gagging and binding her with tape, and then burying her inside of a cardboard box in an attempt to kill her.
“He was putting the soil on top of me,” said the 27-year-old victim Tuesday speaking to a jury. She added that she cried for help and prayed to God as she struggled to survive.
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“I wanted to reply. I wanted to put my two fingers through the hole but I was afraid if he could see it he may break my fingers with the shovel,” said Lewandowska, according to BBC News.
The incident, which took place in May, has reached Leeds Crown Court in the U.K., where Lewandowska’s testimony was told through an interpreter.
Kasprzak, 25, and Lewandowska share a 3-year-old son together at their home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He and friend Patryk Borys allegedly conspired to kill Lewandowska so that Kasprzak could see another woman. The men transported Lewandowska to a wooded area when she heard digging, and the men buried the box containing her in a shallow grave.
The attempted murder led to Lewandowska using her three-stone diamond ring to cut tape from her legs and tear open the box she had been buried in.
“I cut the tape from my legs with this ring,” said Lewandowska. “I put the ring back on my finger then I put my whole hand through the opening [in the box].”
The victim continued, “I was focusing on the hole I had just made. I took my head out from the box through the hole and at that point the soil was getting in.”
Once she had escaped, Lewandowska reached a road where she flagged down a passing car, according to the British newspaper, The Sun.
The paper also reported prosecutor Jonathan Sharp saying to the jury that Kasprzak had grown “bored” of his partner, and had “decided to get rid of her.”
Both Kasprzak and Borys deny the charges of attempted murder. The case will proceed on Wednesday.
