Man faces mandatory life sentence for murder of Bruna Fonseca in Cork

Twenty-eight-year-old Bruna Fonseca did everything she could to persuade her murderer to get help when he accused her of plunging him into hell in Cork with the break-up of their relationship, but he searched online for ways to kill and then he murdered her at his room in the city in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2023.

But not alone did he murder her, he traduced her by claiming that this kind and beautiful young woman had been attacking him and that he merely tried to stop her. That was how the prosecution described 32-year-old Miller Pacheco’s actions. 

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