'Dangerous' man jailed for spying on young women having sex and walking around homes in underwear

A “sexual predator” who admitted to preying on young women in Hull has been sentenced to eight years and a half in prison.

Pawel Relowicz, 25, admitted he spied on young women while they walked in their homes in underwear or had sex, broke into homes to steal intimate objects and leave unwrapped condoms, and pleasuring himself in public.

He was due to stand trial at Sheffield Crown Court on Monday 12 August charged with 13 offences, but instead admitted four counts of voyeurism, three of burglary and two of outraging public decency.

The other four offences were left to lie on file.

Passing down the sentence, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC described him as a “very dangerous individual” and told him: “Between June 2017 and January 2019 you indulged in a campaign of crime.

“I am certain that each one of your crimes, including the burglaries, was driven by your perverted sexual deviancy.

“I cannot ignore the fact that you are plainly a sexual predator.”

Mr Relowicz was also given an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

The defendant, wearing a grey sweatshirt, appeared to be on the verge of tears as he was told the length of his jail term on Friday.

Among his offences was an occasion in which he watched through an open window as a woman and her boyfriend engaged in an “intimate” act.

The victim described feeling “violated” by the incident and said that her friend later found a condom and women’s underwear on the door handle of her home.

She said: “It is something that I still think about to this day, and it weighs heavily on my mind.”

On another occasion, he peeped through the ill-fitting blinds of a woman’s home to watch as she got changed after a shower.

He also spied on another woman as she got dressed from her sports bra and pyjama bottoms, and peeped at another woman as she danced around her living room in leggings and a bra.

The same woman also reported seeing Relowicz’s hands coming through her letterbox less than a month later.

Among the burglary offences was an incident in December 2017 in which he stole three vibrators from a property in Hull.

Prosecutor Richard Woolfall said it was “worthy of note” that he stole the vibrators, but not a high-value laptop that lay in sight.

Mr Relowicz also admitted stealing £148 in cash from the home of a mother-of-two, leaving an unwrapped condom and a pair of knickers, presumably removed from a washing basket, by a child’s toy.

The prosecutor said that the items had been left in the home by the defendant as a “calling card”.

DNA evidence left at the scenes of his crimes led to his identification and prosecution.

On two occasions in January, women saw him masturbating in the street, with one saying he stared directly at her as he performed the act.

Following the sentencing, Catherine Ainsworth from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “The sentence imposed today is a measure of the gravity of his offending, and I hope that the young women he targeted take some measure of comfort from the knowledge that he is now behind bars.”

Dale Brook, who defended Mr Relowicz, said that as a Polish national who has lived in the UK for seven years, Mr Relowicz intends to return to Poland as soon as he can.

He added that a prison sentence would be made “all the worse” by the fact that Mr Relowicz has two young children, aged nine months and three years.

Additional reporting by PA.