By Auslan Cramb
Telegraph [Scotland]
October 3, 2006
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A polish student whose body was found hidden in a church was killed in "a horrific and very, very violent attack", police said yesterday.
Angelika Kluk, 23, was killed in Glasgow days before she was due to return home to Gdansk to start a new term at university.
Her body was found on Friday night in St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, where she had been staying while working as a cleaner. The red sandstone church, in the deprived Anderston area, near the red light district, had been searched several times. It is thought that the body may have been under floorboards beneath a pew.
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| Victim Angelika Kluk |
The student had been spending her second summer in Scotland. DNA tests were being carried out to establish whether she had been sexually assaulted. Her sister, Aneta, 28, who lives in Glasgow, made an emotional appeal for information last week and posted anguished messages on a Polish internet site to try to find her.
Peter Tobin, 60, a handyman at the church, who was seen with Miss Kluk last weekend, was arrested in London on an unrelated matter. Strathclyde detectives travelled to London yesterday to take him back to Scotland and expect to question him today.
Det Supt David Swindle described the student's death as one of the most horrifying cases he had dealt with in 29 years.
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| St Patrick's Church in Glasgow, where the body was found, was closed to worshipers yesterday |
Miss Kluk's Scottish boyfriend, Martin Macaskill, reported her missing after she failed to turn up for work last Monday. She had been living at the church — where the parish priest, Fr Gerry Nugent, throws the doors open to those in need of accommodation — while saving money before returning to Poland to continue studying Scandinavian languages.
St Patrick's Church in Glasgow, where the body was found, was closed to worshipers yesterday
Parishioners said that Miss Kluk was popular and "always smiling". She was a devout Catholic and gave readings in the church. She was also interested in golf and was sometimes seen practising her chipping and putting in the church grounds.
Her sister, Aneta, a secretary, began posting messages on an internet forum used by the Polish community last Wednesday. She wrote: "Has anyone seen my sister? She doesn't do crazy things or make jokes like this." After a body was found, she continued to express the hope that Miss Kluk was alive.
Before her sister was identified, she wrote: "In the press and on the web there's all this nonsense and everyone's giving their condolences. We haven't heard anything from the police, not even that it is a girl." Messages of condolence were posted on the szkocja.net site yesterday, including one calling for a protest march by Poles in Glasgow.
The Scottish Executive estimates that more than 20,000 Poles have settled in Scotland since their country joined the EU in May 2004.
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