Glasgow Evening Times [Scotland]
March 29, 2007
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A Drunken priest's claims he had a sex with a Polish student whose body was found under his church were branded "outrageous and untrue" by the dead girl's sister.
A murder trial heard that 66-year-old Father Gerry Nugent spoke of his affair to police investigating the death of Angelika Kluk, 23.
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| Aneta Kluk and father Wladyslaw arrive at High Court in Edinburgh |
But the girl's sister, Aneta, 28, branded the priest a liar and a "Jekyll and Hyde" character who drank too much.
The High Court in Edinburgh has heard Angelika was staying at St Patrick's Church in Anderston, Glasgow, cleaning and helping out in return for her board and lodging.
Peter Tobin, 60, a handyman there, denies raping and murdering her and concealing the body in the church.
Aneta said devout Catholic Angelika was "inspired" by the priest's services and the way he dealt with his flock.
Angelika and Father Nugent were close friends, she said. He gave Angelika CDs, books and money.
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| Angelika Kluk |
Defence QC Donald Findlay challenged: "Did your sister at any time say anything to you directly to the effect she had, or was having, a sexual relationship with Father Nugent?"
Aneta said: "Never."
Mr Findlay: "So it presumably came as a considerable shock to you to discover he was claiming that he and Angelika had had a sexual relationship?"
Aneta: "It is outrageous and untrue."
After being shown a copy of the priest's "confession" in a newspaper, Aneta was asked if she believed he was a liar when he said he had a sexual relationship with Angelika.
"Yes," Aneta said.
The trial heard that in the days leading up to Angelika's death Father Nugent became "cold" towards the girl and began "snapping" at her. Mr Findlay suggested that was because he became aware of her relationship with married lover Martin Macaskill.
Aneta said the priest was also prone to mood swings and outbursts of anger.
She added he was a "Jekyll and Hyde kind of person" when he'd been drinking.
Aneta also agreed with the lawyer that Mr Macaskill's wife, Anne, might be jealous of the affair with Angelika.
Earlier the trial heard Tobin, the handyman accused of Angelika's murder, was quizzed by her sister and her married lover as they searched for her at the church. They found her purse, return ticket to Poland and a last diary entry on her laptop, expressing her love for Mr Macaskill.
Tobin was "smiling and helpful" when police arrived later, the trial heard.
But Father Nugent did not lift a finger to help, said Aneta, and later he locked himself in her room at the church.
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| Father Gerry Nugent, priest at St Patrick's Church, above, had a drink problem', the court heard |
When Tobin was asked by Aneta about when he'd seen her sister she said he replied "Something about a shed. I don't know. Possibly painting".
Tobin is accused of attacking Angelika between September 24 and 29 in St Patrick's Church, or elsewhere, gagging her, tying her hands, raping her, battering her with a piece of wood or something similar, and repeatedly striking her with a knife.
In a special defence Tobin admits having sex with the student, with her consent.
A further charge alleges he gave police a false name, age and address, travelled to London and pretended to staff at the National Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital in Queen's Square, London, that his name was James Kelly.
The trial continues.
Aneglika's lover in tears over diary of affair
A CHAUFFEUR choked back tears as he was shown the diary Polish student Angelika Kluk kept of their illicit affair.
As reported in the Evening Times yesterday, the diary was found by police investigating the 23-year-old's death.
In her diary, Angelika described her first meeting with Martin Macaskill. He was driving a family of Russians round Scotland and she was nanny to their kids last June.
"Martin is a very nice man. It is a pity most nice men are already taken. He is not too old either, merely 40," was Angelika's first impression.
After an affair developed, her diary entry read: "I have never missed anyone as much as I miss Martin although he was here just a short time ago."
She also said: "Marriage is a sacred thing but I have my feelings too."
After a conversation about Mr Macaskill's wife in the bedroom at St Patrick's, Angelika wrote: "I have never wept so heavily in my whole life ... everything that ever mattered to me is taken away from me."
Publication date 29/03/07
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