A woman stabbed her banker boyfriend to death at their home after he told her he had ‘met someone else’ – before leaving his corpse decomposing in their bedroom for up to nine days, a court heard.
Joanna Cierpka, 51, tried to cut her throat with an eight-inch kitchen knife when police officers stormed her apartment in Newington Causeway, Elephant and Castle, on March 15.
They found the partially-decomposed body of 52-year-old Henrik Slotsaa lying in the bedroom. Investigators found unusual marks on the body which may have been ‘an attempt’ to dismember his body, they said.
‘It was clear he had been
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