Anna Podedworna, 40, is on trial at Derby Crown Court for the 2010 murder of her partner Izabela Zablocka, 30, who vanished after the pair moved from Poland to the U.K. in 2009.
Disappearance and Remains
Zablocka was last heard from on August 28, 2010, during a call to her family in Poland where everything seemed normal. Prosecutors allege she was killed soon after in their shared home on Princes Street, Normanton, Derby; her body was dismembered—cut in half with a large knife through the spine—then buried in the backyard under concrete. Remains, limited to a skeleton and tissue fragments, were recovered June 1, 2025; a post-mortem couldn’t determine the cause of death due to decomposition.
Prosecution Case
Podedworna, a former butcher skilled in carcass dismemberment, allegedly took “deliberate, calculated” steps to hide the crime, including lying to police in 2010 that she hadn’t seen Zablocka since August. Motive linked to sexual jealousy in their “stormy and turbulent” relationship; Zablocka’s daughter later told police her mother wanted gender reassignment surgery but couldn’t afford it. In May 2025, after pressure from a Polish TV journalist, Podedworna contacted Derbyshire Police, revealed the burial site, but claimed accidental death in self-defense during a fight—prosecutors call this another lie.
Charges and Trial
Charged June 5, 2025, with murder, preventing lawful burial, and perverting justice; she denies all. Trial, which began this week, expected to last four weeks. Family reported her missing in November 2010 to U.K. and Polish authorities, but no leads until recently.
