'Very jealous' ex-boyfriend told friend 'I killed Bruna' before sending video of her body, court told

The man who denies murdering 28-year-old Brazilian woman Bruna Fonseca on New Year’s Day 2023 in Cork phoned a friend in Brazil in the early hours to say, “I killed Bruna”, and he sent a video showing the body of Bruna, the judge and jury in the murder trial was told on Tuesday.

A witness who arrived on the scene after 6am on January 1, 2023, testified that the accused man, Miller Pacheco, first told her, “It wasn’t me”, and then said, “I choked her”. She said he smiled.

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