Murderer will be sentenced in June

Murderer will be sentenced in June

The 55-year-old St Helier resident was found guilty of murdering Zsuzsanna Besenyei on Thursday after a two-week trial.

He appeared before Lieutenant Bailiff Anthony Olsen yesterday for his sentencing date to be set.

He is facing life imprisonment for killing the 37-year-old Hungarian, whom he had met when they both worked at the former Les Charrières Country Hotel in St Peter seven years ago,

A jury of six men and six women found him guilty of the murder and two counts of perverting the course of justice by lying to police about the events surrounding her death.

Warn, a former construction worker and handyman, killed Miss Besenyei on 10 May last year and it is believed he kept her body in the boot of her own car for three days before dumping her on a remote beach in the middle of the night.

Miss Besenyei’s body was found on 16 May last year, two days after her car was discovered abandoned on Le Haule beach. It had been flooded by the tide.

Warn also sent messages from Miss Besenyei’s phone to make it appear she was still alive before her body was found.

While the results of a Home Office post-mortem examination were inconclusive, and no cause of death was established, mobile phone records and CCTV images showing Warn’s movements in the days around his victim’s death were used to establish what had happened.

After his conviction, the senior investigation officer on the case, Acting Chief Inspector Craig Jackson, expressed his condolences to Miss Besenyei’s family.

Three members of her family travelled from Hungary to attend the trial, which they followed from a private room in the Royal Court building with the assistance of a translator.

‘This has been a long and complex investigation and officers have worked tirelessly to pull all aspects of this case together,’ Acting Chief Inspector Jackson said after the verdict.

‘The defendant Warn went to considerable effort to cover his tracks following the murder of Zsuzsanna – probably as a result of an argument about money. He even tried to point the finger of blame at another man. Despite his silence and denials, justice has been secured.’

Warn has been in La Moye prison since his arrest in May 2018 and will remain there until he is sentenced.

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