How 27 Year-old Woman Who Was Buried Alive In A Shallow Grave By Her Boyfriend, Dug Her Way Out

This is the woman who claims her boyfriend buried her alive...but saved herself by cutting her way out of a cardboard 'coffin' using her engagement ring.
Michelina Lewandowska, 27, yesterday gave further details of her terrifying ordeal in a wood, bound and gagged and encased in a box beneath soil and a heavy branch.

She said she managed to remove parcel tape covering her mouth but was worried the oxygen would run out before she could free herself.
She sliced through the tape binding her ankles using the ring her alleged attacker had given her, tore at a small hole in the box and finally dug her way to freedom.

She had earlier been shot twice with a 300,000 volt Taser gun by the boyfriend, Marcin Kasprzak, 25, and tied up in her home, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Kasprzak wanted to 'get rid of her' so he could look after their three-year-old son Jakub himself, it was claimed.

Julian Goose QC, defending Kasprzak, said he simply wanted to 'frighten' her. However, Miss Lewandowska insisted she was the victim of a murder plot.

She said the two air holes that enabled her to survive were not left unblocked on purpose, but because Kasprzak was taping the box with her inside in 'a rush'.

After being carried to the wood by Kasprzak and his friend Patryk Borys, 18, she lay in silence until she was sure they had gone.

She then tore at the box until she had managed to get her head through the soil and into the open air. When no one answered her cries for help she renewed her efforts to wriggle free.

'I was very knackered. I had problems tearing the box apart. I was trying to tear the box apart using my shoulders,' she said.

Eventually she succeeded and flagged down a passing motorist.