A trio of Polish nationals who helped bury a father-of-one’s body in a shallow grave after he was beaten to death have been deported.
Monika Solerska, Tomasz Reczycki, and Adam Czerwinski, who all pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in 2022 by burying Tomasz Dembler’s body, have been sent back to Poland after serving their prison sentences.
Meanwhile, the two men who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, Zbigniew Pawlowski and Rafal Chmielewski, are currently serving 16-and-a-half-year sentences in the UK.
They will be considered for parole, and then deported, after serving at least two-thirds of their sentences.
The remains of Mr Dembler were discovered by two girls having a makeshift picnic near Flatts Lane Country Park in Normanby, North Yorkshire, on April 12, 2021.
Mr Dembler, 39, was found with a broken upper jaw, 15 fractured ribs, cuts to his lips and mouth and severe bruising to his head, back and chest.
During a trial at Teesside Crown Court in January 2022, the prosecution said that Mr Dembler was killed in the hours after 3.35am on March 21, 2021, at some point after making a phone call with a friend who asked him for a lift.
Father-of-one Tomasz Dembler, 39, (pictured), was beaten to death and buried in a shallow grave on March 21, 2021
Monika Solerska (top right), Tomasz Reczycki (left), and Adam Czerwinski (bottom right), who all pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in 2022 by burying Tomasz Dembler’s body, have been sent back to Poland after serving their prison sentences
During a trial at Teesside Crown Court in January 2022, Peter Makepeace QC said that Mr Dembler (pictured) was buried in a shallow grave and it was ‘a miracle’ that he was found
Speaking to the court, Peter Makepeace QC said that Mr Dembler was buried in a shallow grave and it was ‘a miracle’ that he was found.
Mrs Justice Stacey said that the attack inflicted on Mr Dembler would likely have ’caused unimaginable pain’, describing his body’s disposal as ‘chillingly slick and callous’.
The post mortem found that it is likely he had been repeatedly kicked and stamped on and that the injuries to his neck may have been caused by pressure from his attacker’s arm.
Having moved to the UK from Poland 20 years prior, Mr Dembler’s life is understood to have taken a downward spiral after he split up from the mother of his child.
He then moved to Middlesbrough and took a room in Czerwinski’s rented terraced home, where the prosecution told the court that he was murdered.
During his time in the UK, Mr Dembler was understood to have grown apart from his family, who found his drinking and illicit drug use hard to accept. His last message to his mother in Poland, read ‘leave me alone’.
The court heard how Pawlowski had became angry with Mr Dembler after he made a joke about him having sexual contact with a man.
Zbigniew Pawlowski and Rafal Chmielewski (pictured), who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, are currently serving 16-and-a-half-year sentences in the UK. They will be considered for parole, and then deported, after serving at least two-thirds of their sentences
The remains of Mr Dembler were discovered by two girls having a makeshift picnic near Flatts Lane Country Park in Normanby, North Yorkshire, on April 12, 2021
Pictured: Mr Dembler’s downstairs bedroom in Czerwinski’s rented terraced home in Middlesbrough, where the prosecution told the court during a 2022 trial that Mr Dembler was murdered
Then, just days later, he was brutally beaten to death, with a Home Office pathologist’s report finding that Mr Dembler’s injuries were likely to have impaired the use of his lower body and perhaps ‘impaired his ability to breathe’.
Uncovering that hypostasis had set in prior to Mr Dembler being buried, thereby suggesting he was already dead, the report also found that his hands were likely cut off after he had died.
Forty-year-old Solerska, Chmielewski’s girlfriend at the time, received a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence in April 2022 after assisting in cleaning up blood in the house share and also making repeated car journeys to help transport Mr Dembler’s body. She served just half of her prison term before being deported.
Reczycki, 41, served half of his three-year-and-six-month sentence after purchasing a new carpet for Mr Dembler’s bedroom. The initial bloodstained carpet had been ripped up in a bid to destroy evidence of the brutal killing.
He appealed his deportation in 2023, on the grounds that his two children would suffer as a result, but this was later rejected.
Pictured: Forty-year-old Solerska with Chmielewski, her boyfriend at the time. Solerska received a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence in April 2022 after helping to clean up the blood and transport Mr Dembler’s body. She served just half of her prison term before being deported
Described by family and friends as a ‘kind man who was always smiling’, a funeral service was held for Mr Dembler on June 12, 2021, in his Polish hometown of Elblag
Reczycki, 41, served half of his three year and six month sentence after purchasing a new carpet for Mr Dembler’s bedroom. He appealed his deportation in 2023, but this was later rejected
Czerwinski, 48, also served half of his five-year imprisonment term before being deported last year.
Described by family and friends as a ‘kind man who was always smiling’, a funeral service was held for Mr Dembler on June 12, 2021, in his Polish hometown of Elblag.
A Home Office spokesperson told Teesside Live: ‘Foreign nationals who commit heinous crimes should be in no doubt, that we will do everything to make sure they are not free on Britain’s streets, including removal from the UK at the earliest possible opportunity.
‘Since the election we’ve removed 3,594 foreign criminals, a 16 per cent increase on the same period 12 months prior.’
