Saved by my ring

A BRAVE young mum has told how her diamond ring saved her life after she was buried alive in a shallow grave by her steroid-crazed lover.

Michalina Lewandowska, 27, was preparing to go shopping with Marcin Kasprzak when the bodybuilder suddenly zapped her with a 300,000-volt Taser gun.

He then taped her hands and feet and shoved her in a cardboard box.

Speaking for the first time of the horror, which saw Kasprzak jailed earlier this year, Michalina recalled how she could hear earth being shovelled on top of her as she lay underground.

But the terrified mum, who has a four-year-old son with Kasprzak, miraculously escaped by cutting herself free — using the diamond engagement ring he had given her. She said:

“I heard a spade digging and then the soil falling on top of the box. I thought: 'This is it. I’m going to die.'

“It was pitch dark and there was hardly any room. I was terrified that I was going to suffocate so I started breathing as shallowly as I could.

“I was straining my ears in the hope of hearing the car drive away so I could start to escape.

“I thought if I got out and he was still there he would attack me with the spade.

“I didn’t hear the car but after a while I knew that I had to get out — whether he was still there or not.

All sorts of things were going through my mind, but I tried to keep calm.

“The thing that saved me was thinking of my little boy Jakub. If I died I would never see him again and he would be left without his mother.

“The only sharp thing I had on me was my engagement ring, so I used that to cut the tape around my wrists.

“I then started cutting the cardboard with it. I kept cutting and slashing at it with the ring until I could get my hand through a hole, pulling and tearing frantically at the cardboard.

“The earth started to fall through the hole — it was in my clothes and my hair and all over my face, it was horrible.

"I started screaming, 'Help! God save me! Please help!' in the hope that someone might hear me.

“I really thought I was not going to make it, that no one would find me and I was going to die in this place.

“I started kicking at the cardboard. I was clawing at it and digging with the ring and kicking it.

“I felt weak but I kept going and once I had a hole in the box I pushed up against the earth and finally pushed my head out. It was dark but I could see the trees and leaves and sky.

“I gasped and took in huge gulps of air. I was covered in soil. I was so tired, I had no strength left but I knew I had to get out.

“I managed to force my arms out and it was then that I finally knew I was going to make it.”

Exhausted Michalina staggered from the woods to a road where she flagged down a passing motorist who called police.

Officers arrived within 15 minutes and took her back to the woodland spot near Woodsome Hall Golf Club, West Yorks, where they discovered the grave and cardboard coffin.

Kasprzak was arrested shortly afterwards and in January this year was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder and kidnap.

His accomplice Patryck Borys, 17, was cleared of attempted murder but was sent to a young offenders institution for 4½ years for kidnap

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