The horrendous murder of Maria Rawlings, a life sentence for the 'Love Bug' killer and Constance Marten blames herself for baby death: CourtNewsUK newsletter: 14.3.24
‘I RAPED MARIA. THEN I MURDERED HER’
A Romanian labourer has admitted assaulting a woman before he battered her to death with a wooden club embedded with nails.
Valentin Lazar, 23, battered and strangled Maria Rawlings, 45, after following her from the EL3 double decker in Romford, east London, late on May 3, 2021.
CCTV captured Lazar exiting the bus with the mother-of-two before guiding her towards some bushes.
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