Andrezej Kunowski - Repeat Sex Offender - "The Best" - Died in Prison

He has escaped punishment. The only positive part is that he will never inflict such a horrific act on any other person.


A predatory sex killer known as 'The Beast', who was linked to several unsolved crimes, has died in prison.

Police said Andrezej Kunowski, 52, was 'probably the most dangerous' of all sex offenders.

He was jailed for life in March 2004 after strangling a 12-year-old girl.

The Polish illegal immigrant came to Britain in 1996 after escaping prison in Poland, where he had been convicted of 17 rapes and faced a total of 70 charges.

In May 1997, he followed 12-year-old Katerina Koneva from school to her West London home and strangled her.

Her father came home to find Kunowski in the house and chased him away before returning to discover his dying daughter.

Kunowski's trail of sex crimes might have ended only a month later, when he was arrested for theft. But in a series of blunders by police, he was neither fingerprinted nor DNA-tested and was allowed to disappear.

He was then linked to several sex attacks and the disappearances of two women.

In 2002, he was charged with raping a 21-year-old student in London. Police found his DNA matched traces on Katerina's body and he was jailed for life. He died of heart failure on Wednesday at Frankland Prison, Durham.

Yesterday Katerina's mother, Zaklina, said: 'He has escaped punishment. The only positive part is that he will never inflict such a horrific act on any other person.'

Police hope other victims will come forward. Detective Inspector Andy Manning said: 'Now Kunowski is dead I am hoping anyone who was too scared previously will speak to us.'

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