He stabbed his girlfriend to death and wrote “It was me” on her leg with red nail polish

Englishman Daniel Grant Smith, 41, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for the brutal murder of his partner Imogen Bohajczuk, 29, who he beat and stabbed her, and after killing her, he wrote the phrase “It was me” on her leg with red nail polish that belonged to the victim.

The murderer received the heavy sentence after admitting that he had acted as a “Act of cruelty and cruel triumphalism”. You will spend a minimum of 17 years and 40 days, when a parole court will review your case and assess whether you are requesting early release.

According to the court that examined the case, the couple had been in a relationship for several months which it was characterized by alcohol abuse and violence.

In February of this year, an argument that broke out at the victim’s apartment in Oldham, UK escalated to the point that Smith attacked his girlfriend, repeatedly beating her and then stabbing her with a knife. food. “With such force he hit the bone”said the judge in the case.

Then he moved her body around the bedroom, put her on the bed, and placed her next to a soft toy in which he held a bottle of perfume.

Then he looked for a red nail polish and wrote on the leg of his deceased girlfriend: “I was”.

According to subsequent statements by the murderer to police, this was done because he “thought everything was fine”, and as an admission of his brutal murder.

“If you had wanted to make the police understand what you had done, you could have gone and told them. This act looks like an act of cruelty and cruel triumphalism “sentencing Judge Patrick Field said.

After the murder, Smith left the body in the house, He took his victim’s bank card and cell phone and emptied his savings account to buy large amounts of alcohol.

It took three weeks for Bohajczuk’s body to be found by an accommodation manager on March 3. The corpse bore traces of defensive wounds.

Daniel Smith was arrested on March 5 and on July 20 he pleaded guilty to the murder of his girlfriend.

On reading his sentence, the judge underlined the problems of violence and domestic violence that the accused had had in the past, as well as his mental problems, although he considered that they were not a mitigating factor. of his terrible crime.

On the contrary, he exposed several aggravating factors to harden the sentence against Smith, among which: The use of the knife and the force of the attack; that the victim was particularly vulnerable and had an abusive relationship with him, a man with a proven history of “violence against vulnerable women”; that the victim was murdered in her own home, a place where she had the right to feel safe; his attempt to cover up what happened, leaving the victim’s body covered on the bed and using Bohajczuk’s phone and bank card, emptying his account and stealing money to buy alcohol; and having written on the victim’s leg before leaving his body.

The judge said Ms Bohajczuk was killed after a “Brutal and fierce attack”

“There was cruelty here because you desecrated the body of the woman you just killed to proclaim what you just did. This act is incompatible with any immediate remorse on your part. “, underlined the togado.

She also recalled that the victim was a young mother and that her murder condemned her young son to grow up without maternal care, as well as Bohajczuk’s relatives not to be able to take advantage of her for the many years that remained to him to live.

“Therefore, the sentence for the murder of Imogen Bohajczuk is life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 17.5 years (less the 143 days spent in preventive detention), or 17 years 40 days”, coThe judge included.

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