the Guardian Martyna Ogonowska was sentenced in 2018 to 17 years in prison for stabbing Filip Jaskiewicz to death in a car park
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
A woman who stabbed a man to death as he sexually assaulted her has lost an appeal against her 17-year jail term.
Martyna Ogonowska was handed a life sentence aged 18 after being convicted of the 2018 murder of Filip Jaskiewicz, 23, in a Peterborough car park, using a knife she said she carried for self protection.
Sentencing her at Cambridge crown court in 2019, Judge Farrell QC told Ogonowska that Jaskiewicz “undoubtedly touched you sexually and was violent to you shortly before he was killed”. But he said it did not qualify as self-defence because Ogonowska, who he accepted suffered from some mental disability and had experienced previous trauma, had taken a knife to the scene.
On Friday, the court of appeal rejected Ogonowska’s appeal against her sentence. An appeal against her conviction was rejected in 2023. Her lawyers had argued that the minimum jail terms should have been 12 to 13 years rather than 17 years.
In the court of appeal’s judgment, Lord Justice Stuart-Smith wrote: “However we approach it, this was still a heavy sentence for a young person with the applicant’s attributes to bear; but on the judge’s findings this was a serious crime even after all allowances and mitigation is taken into account. We are ultimately unpersuaded that the sentence imposed by the judge can be described as manifestly excessive such that we should interfere.”
During the trial, the court heard that Ogonowska had suffered PTSD as a result of having been raped in 2015 when she was 14. Her alleged rapist was not prosecuted and, at her own trial, Farrell accepted the prosecution’s account – relying partly on Facebook messages between Ogonowska and her alleged attacker – that the intercourse was consensual, despite her age…
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