'Sadistic' child killer sentenced


Convicted rapist Clark lived in the same street as the Zommer family



A convicted rapist found guilty of aaaually assaulting and then murdering his neighbour's 14-year-old daughter is to be sentenced later.
Zuzanna Zommer's body was found by her parents at their home in Compton Row, Leeds, with her throat cut and skull fractured last October.
Michael Clark, 40, of the same street, attacked Zuzanna two months after her family arrived from Poland.
After the killing, he spent the day at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, jurors heard.
The judge at Sheffield Crown Court, Mr Justice King, said on Thursday he would sentence Clark on Friday.
Prosecutor Adrian Waterman QC, told the court he would be proposing the judge sentences Clark on the basis the murder was "aaaual, sadistic and involving a child".
Solvent abuser
Clark lived two doors from the Zommer family and befriended them when they moved in.
But not long afterwards, his behaviour began to worry Zuzanna's father.
On 1 October 2007, the day she was killed, Zuzanna's parents had gone to find work in Leeds city centre, leaving her at home.
Solvent abuser Clark later told the police he had an alibi, insisting he was in a post office collecting benefits at the time of the murder, but officers disproved it.
The court heard that after killing Zuzanna, Clark had driven to Blackpool , where he had gone on several rides at the Pleasure Beach.
Nightclub rape
One of the knives used to kill her was found in a bin at her home along with a chocolate bar wrapper, which prosecutors said Clark had eaten.
The court heard how Clark was convicted in 1991 of raping a woman he met in a nightclub and how he had subjected that woman to a aaaual assault.
In 1998, he was convicted of indecent assault and affray after he attacked a woman who managed to escape from him by smashing a window. In 2003 he was also found guilty of attacking a prostitute. On Thursday, the jury of five women and seven men found Clark guilty of one count of murder and another of assault by penetration.