06 October,2010 03:11 PM IST | | IANS
A British woman was killed by her ex-lover after he found out she was having an affair with a policeman tasked with protecting her, a media report said.
The victim was stabbed to death by her jealous ex-lover after he discovered her affair, a court heard, Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Kat Ryba was knifed in front of her three-year-old daughter Michelle who screamed at her father to not "hit mummy" after he flew into a rage over the relationship, a jury heard.
Ryba, 26, struck up the illicit affair with Richard Allan who had been assigned to her case after she alleged she had been assaulted by partner Piotr Zasada, 33.
She took out an harassment order against the bus driver and moved into a flat with their daughter.
On the night she died last October, Allan visited Ryba and the pair had sex. Ninety minutes after the policemen left the property Zasada, who had found out his former partner was seeing another man, forced his way into the flat, it is alleged.
In a jealous rage, he knifed Ryba six times to the body while their daughter screamed at him to stop, the jury at Winchester Crown Court was told.
After the attack, Zasada is said to have thrown Ryba's body from a window of the second-floor flat in Bournemouth, Dorset. She was rushed to hospital but died during the night.
Ryba, a waitress, had been stabbed in the heart and lungs during the attack.
Zasada, a Polish national from Bournemouth, has pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Anthony Donne QC, prosecuting, said Ryba came into contact with Allan last September after she alleged she had been assaulted by the defendant.
She took out a non-molestation order against her ex which prevented him from contacting her.
Donne said Ryba's continued contact with the policeman over the case led her to make "suggestive approaches" towards him, including a kiss.
The officer initially rejected the advances but eventually succumbed and the pair began their affair.
Donne said: "There can be no excuses for the behaviour of Allan, who had a duty to remain scrupulously detached."
"The police are there to provide vulnerable people with comfort and support. The line is extremely obvious and Allan overstepped that line."
"He (Zasada) was angry at her for leaving him and was jealous that she had started an association with another man. He stabbed and slashed her repeatedly with a knife," Donne said.
"Michelle begged him not to hit mummy but he took no notice of her screams."
Ryba worked as a waitress at the Sorridi restaurant at the Compton Acres attraction in Poole.
Allan serves with Dorset police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into his contact with Ryba before her death. The trial continues.
