Our thanks to Jeff for this. It’s an intriguing case. The start of the piece:

“A woman who was missing for 15 years was killed by her partner and buried in the back garden of their home, a court has heard.

Anna Podedworna, 40, denies the murder of Izabela Zablocka, who was 30 when she was reported missing in 2010, after moving from her native Poland to Derby.

Prosecutor Gordon Aspden KC told Derby Crown Court the two women had moved to the UK together and lived in Normanton.

Zablocka’s body was discovered on 1 June 2025, buried in the garden of a house in Princes Street, where the pair had been living, after Podedworna emailed Derbyshire Police to tell them her body could be found there, the jury heard.”

A later extract:

“Aspden said shortly after this call, Zablocka was murdered by Podedworna, who “dismembered Izabela’s body by cutting it in half with a large knife”.

He said police discovered the defendant had previously been employed as a skilled butcher and her work involved “deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife”.

The court heard the body was buried in the back garden, before concrete hardstanding was then laid over the top.”

So Zablocka disappeared and it didn’t occur to the police to check the possibility that she may have been killed and her body might have been buried in the garden, possibly under some new concrete. Give me strength. The killing would have remained unsolved to this day if Podedworna hadn’t confessed to it.

Back to the article, this extract takes to the end of this blog piece:

“The court heard Podedworna, now of Boyer Street in Derby, emailed police on 21 May 2025 saying she wished to provide evidence.

The exchange culminated in her telling officers three days later that they would find Zablocka’s body buried in the garden in Princes Street, the jury heard.

Aspden said: “Now and for the first time, the defendant admitted that she had killed Izabela.

“However, now and for the very first time, she claimed that Izabela had died by ‘accident’ during a violent confrontation between them, and that during this violent incident she had done nothing more than defend herself.

“The crown’s case is that this new and freshly-created claim of self-defence was yet another lie by this defendant to try to conceal her guilt.”

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