EVANS-LOUDE: DJ ‘HID MURDER VICTIM’S BODY IN CUPBOARD’
A DJ battered a student to death within hours of meeting him and hid his body in an airing cupboard, the Old Bailey heard today (Tues).
Emlyn Evans-Loude, 27, attacked Michal (CORR) Mazur with a metal bar at his basement flat and spent a week trying to dispose of evidence.
Evans-Loude, who calls himself ‘Vanilla Ice’, left a voicemail for an acquaintance explaining he had a ‘stiff’ in his lounge and offering him ‘whatever money you need’.
Within hours of the killing he told Robert Scott, who he barely knew: ‘I would be prepared to pay upwards of a thousand pounds just for a phone call.
‘I need some help with something. I have done something very, very wrong, and if you could call me that would be awesome.’
He added: ‘I am just feeling out of my depth here.
‘I have kind of got something in the house that I need to get rid of and I don’t know what to do with him.
‘I am very sorry, I do appreciate the fact you have many things to deal with and I don’t even know you.’
He also spent hours listening to music on the internet, playing an online computer game called ‘Tribal Wars’ and sending flirty text messages to girls as Mr Mazur’s bloodied body lay on his living room floor.
Evans-Loude eventually trussed up the 28 year-old in tarpaulin and dumped him in the airing cupboard.
He told another friend, Jack Fenton: ‘I will be honest with you, I have got a Polish bloke and need to bury him in Epping Forest.’
Both Evans-Loude and Mr Mazur were students at London Metropolitan University but had not met until January 10 last year at the bar in the Aldgate campus known as ‘The Hub’.
They spent the evening eating and drinking together with fellow students, before returning to Evans-Loude’s flat in (150) Wallwood Road, Leytonstone, east London, shortly after midnight with a girl called Sophie.
They drank vodka and listened to music on Evans-Loude’s sound system which was wired to his laptop.
Prosecutor Bobbie Cheema said Mr Mazur died sometime after Sophie left around 1.30am on January 11.
‘He was beaten to death by this defendant,’ she said. ‘Later his body was packed in to a bag and hidden in that flat.’
In the week that followed Evans-Loude bought a car, researched sites to dump the body, attempted to clean the flat and visited his girlfriend Sophie Foster in Leicester.
At the same time Mr Mazur’s frantic girlfriend had raised the alarm with police and retraced his final movements, which led her to Evans-Loude.
Evans-Loude eventually fled to Paris on a one-way ticket to Eurostar on January 17, but the following day he sent emails to Miss Foster, his parents in Torrington, north Devon, and the police explaining what had happened.
‘Ultimately he realised there was no escape,’ said Miss Cheema.
‘On January 19 knowing police were on his tracks he send emails to his girlfriend, his mother and the police admitting Michal was dead and that he was in his flat, but claiming he had been attacked by Michal and he had killed him in self-defence.’
Mr Mazur’s body later found in the airing cupboard at the Leytonstone flat on January 19.
Evans-Loude returned to the UK and was arrested at St David’s railway station in Exeter on the same day.
The court heard Mr Mazur, a Pole, had been in the UK for four years and was studying for a degree in international relations.
He lived with his girlfriend in Mafeking Road, Tottenham, north London, who was a student at the University’s Holloway campus, and he worked part-time at a hotel near Hyde Park.
Miss Cheema said he was described as a ‘kind, intelligent man’.
Evans-Loude, who grew up in Devon, was also studying politics, philosophy and economics at the same university.
He lived by himself at the basement flat and was ‘involved in the music scene’ where he was known as a DJ.
The court heard Mr Mazur suffered multiple fractures to his head and face, caused by at least two blunt instruments.
In police interviews Evans-Loude claimed he had been attacked by Mr Mazur when he had asked him to leave in the early hours.
He said he had been put in a headlock and strangled and had used a weights bar to hit Mr Mazur to get him off.
A police doctor found no injuries other than a bruise by his shoulder blade and a shaving cut on his lip.
Evans-Loude, of [150] Wallwood Road, Leytonstone, east London, denies murder.
The trial continues.
