He added: “Following this telephone call Izabela’s family neither saw nor heard from her ever again.
“To all intents and purposes she completely disappeared off the face of the earth.”
Aspden said shortly after this call, Zablocka was murdered by Podedworna, who “dismembered Izabela’s body by cutting it in half with a large knife”.
He said police discovered the defendant had previously been employed as a skilled butcher and her work involved “deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife”.
The court heard the body was buried in the back garden, before concrete hardstanding was then laid over the top.
“This defendant’s post-murder cover-up involved a series of deliberate, calculated, gruesome, and time-consuming acts.
“The appalling mistreatment and destruction of Izabela’s body really speaks for itself,” he said.
Aspden said although the crown did not know why Izabela was murdered, “there is evidence of sexual jealousy” between Podedworna and Zablocka, describing their relationship as “a stormy and turbulent one”.
The court heard men had found the defendant sexually attractive, which “caused suspicion, jealousy, and conflict” in her relationship with Zablocka.
Zablocka’s daughter, who was still living in Poland when she went missing, told police she believed her mother wanted to undergo gender reassignment surgery but could not afford to, Aspden said.
