Dentist who tried get date rape drug to use on his unfaithful wife so he could use her fingerprint to unlock her phone, escapes jail despite police launching murder hunt for his missing wife

  • Renata Antczak vanished after dropping off her daughter at school near Hull
  • The 49-year-old has not been seen since but police believe she is still in Britain 
  • Police launched murder probe and her husband and another man were arrested 
  • Despite trial dates set, charged were dropped and the pair were later released 
  • Six months on, mystery still surrounds her disappearance as search continues

By Alexander Robertson For Mailonline

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A dentist who admitted plotting to date rape his unfaithful wife has avoided jail despite police launching a murder probe after she went missing.

Majid Mustafa wept in the dock as a court heard he had spent six months in prison awaiting trial for administering a noxious substance to Renata Antzcak.

Renata, 49, disappeared almost a year ago, when she was last spotted at home after going on the school run in Hull, East Yorkshire, with her 12-year-old daughter.

Mustafa, 48, had claimed at the time his estranged wife had fled the UK to join a cult. 

Majid Mustafa
Renata Antczak

Majid Mustafa (left, seen arrivgin at an earlier hearing) wept as a court heard he had spent six months in prison awaiting trial for administering a noxious substance to Renata Antzcak (right)

Renata Antczak (left) told Majid Mustafa (right) she wanted a divorce as he waited for her to return for a birthday meal on January 28 last year, transcripts from a police interview revealed 

Renata Antczak (left) told Majid Mustafa (right) she wanted a divorce as he waited for her to return for a birthday meal on January 28 last year, transcripts from a police interview revealed 

However the court heard Mustafa wanted to obtain a date rape drug so he could use his wife's finger print to access her phone to find proof of an affair.

Doncaster Crown Court heard this week that Mustafa had been told Renata wanted a divorce on his birthday after he thought the pair were heading out for a meal.

Following the mother-of-two's disappearance, the court was told messages and calls were intercepted from Mustafa and his 50-year-old pal Robert Lipinski.

They detailed conversations about obtaining a 'rape drug' from Poland so Mustafa could search Renata's phone using her finger print when she was incapacitated.

Renata, 49, disappeared almost a year ago, when she was last spotted at home after going on the school run in Hull, East Yorkshire, with her 12-year-old daughter
Majid Mustafa at court

Renata disappeared almost a year ago, when she was last spotted at home after going on the school run with her 12-year-old daughter (left). Shown right is Mustafa

Mr Mustafa (pictured) and Mr Lipinski had their charges dropped and were released from custody

Mr Mustafa (pictured) and Mr Lipinski had their charges dropped and were released from custody

Mustafa then became hell-bent and 'obsessed' over Renata having an affair and wanted his pal Lipinski to fly to Poland to get hold of GHB, the court heard.

A jury of nine women and three men heard Mustafa had used covert devices to also film his wife in her car to see if she was meeting another man.

However, the case was stopped on the third day and Mustafa pleaded guilty to the charge of encouraging a person to obtain GHB so he could unlawfully administer it to his wife.

Sentencing Mustafa to a 12 month conditional discharge, Judge Mark Bury told him: 'These are exceptionally circumstances.

'Many partners are unhappily unfaithful in their relationships but they're very few that would want to drug them with GHB to find out what was going on.

Posters were put up in English and Polish across Hull and police appealed for anyone who saw her between 8.30am and 1pm on April 25 last year to contact them

Posters were put up in English and Polish across Hull and police appealed for anyone who saw her between 8.30am and 1pm on April 25 to contact them

'For reasons connected to Renata's disappearance, and on offences you have pleaded guilty to here today, is that you spent five-and-a-half-months in custody.

'You are not charged with, still less convicted, in connection with her disappearance.'

Judge Bury told the jury before dismissing them: 'It is a very unusual case and these are very unusual circumstances.

'On the 25th of April last year your wife was reported missing and she is still a missing person.

'I make it plain to you and everybody else connected with this case, the fact your wife is a missing person has no relevance to this sentencing exercise.'

Mustafa, of Hull, East Yorkshire, was first arrested on May 22, 2017 and was remanded in custody until October 6, 2017.

The defendant's barrister Michael Bromley-Martin, QC, told the court Mustafa had been with his wife over 20 years and had two children together.

He said that after pleading guilty to the offence Mustafa 'would lose his licence to practice'.

Before being charged with this offence, Mustafa had previously claimed his wife had fled to Poland to join a cult with another man.

Upon leaving court at the end of the four day trial in Doncaster, Mustafa said: 'I don't have much to say I want to go back to Hull and go back to my family.

'I want to go back to being a dentist and my patients and doing the job I love.'

Police officers at the house of missing Renata Antczak, in Kingswood, near Hull, where she was last seen

Police officers at the house of missing Renata Antczak, in Kingswood, near Hull, where she was last seen

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