Convicted rapist murdered couple in frenzied knife attack as he fought deportation back to Poland
Krzysztof Gadecki, 38, stabbed Ronnie Kidd and Holly Alexander 32 times just a year after being served papers to boot him out of Scotland when his violent past was uncovered
A CONVICTED rapist murdered a couple in a knife frenzy as he fought deportation back to Poland, it emerged yesterday.
Krzysztof Gadecki, 38, just a year after being served papers to boot him out of Scotland when his violent past was uncovered.
Investigators found the maniac had been caged for more than ten years for rape, armed robbery and fraud in his homeland.
But he was allowed to stay pending a Home Office appeal before he butchered his victims in their Dundee flat last December.
The monster jailed for at least 26 years yesterday after being convicted of the killings at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Tory justice spokesman Liam Kerr last night slammed the blunder.
He said: “The families of these victims will understandably feel there has been a massive failure in the system here. This was a dangerous individual who should never been able to set up home here.
“Moves were made to deport him but he and his legal team played the system, and the consequences have been dire.
“Lessons must be learned from this deplorable incident.”
The trial heard Ronnie, 40, suffered 23 wounds to his head, neck and torso in the brutal attack.
One of the blade strikes severed his jugular vein.
Mum-of-three Holly, 37, was knifed nine times and had a 17cm lung wound which damaged an artery.
After the horror, heroin addict Gadecki went back to the blood-spattered flat and nicked wallets, cash, watches and drugs.
The victims’ bodies were discovered after a security firm failed to reach Ronnie, who was on an electronic tag from a court order.
Cops found the pair inside their top-floor home after a locksmith forced the door.
During evidence, Gadecki claimed he went to the property to ask about a missing jacket belonging to his dead brother.
He said dad-of-four Ronnie had a knife which he managed to wrestle free and hit him.
The sicko even boasted in court: “With all respect to him and his family, I won.”
He insisted .
He told jurors: “I was scared. There was no time to think. I felt like a soldier in the first line.
“Life is a gift, everyone has a right to defend it.”
He also claimed Ronnie was his drug dealer and that he had tattooed the couple three weeks before their deaths.
Prosecutor Bill MacVicar said on the day before the double murder, Gadecki had no money or drugs and was desperate to get some.
But the killer replied: “No, that’s not true. I always arranged something for myself.”
Gadecki denied murdering the pair between December 8 and December 11 last year, claiming he had acted in self-defence.
But a jury took just 40 minutes to unanimously find the Pole guilty of both killings.
Following the verdict, Holly’s mum Lorraine Di Palermo, 56, from New York, said: “We are grateful to the jury for seeing the truth.
“We are speechless over the sentence. He was a convicted armed robber and rapist and should have been deported back to Poland.”
The court heard Holly emigrated to Scotland from her native New York with her husband Forrest and three kids in 2014.
They opened a pizza takeaway in Dundee but their relationship later broke down.
Mr MacVicar said: “She was at that time recovering from heroin addiction but unfortunately relapsed and started to abuse heroin again.”
Handing him a life sentence, Judge Lord Boyd of Duncansby told Gadecki: “These were brutal murders of two people committed in their own home. Whatever difficulties they experienced they did not deserve this death.”
Gadecki — who slashed himself with a razor blade in prison during the trial — apologised to the victims’ families and pals as he was led to the cells.
But one onlooker shouted to the fiend: “F*****g die in jail.”
The Home Office said last night: “More than 6,300 foreign nationals were removed from the UK last year.”
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