Man found guilty of Bandon murder

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.

The victim, John Forrester, had just professed his love for O’Connor but, a week or so earlier, she had moved out of his flat and moved in with Grozavu.

Following his violent death on November 12, 2011, he was tied up with a television cable and his body was thrown over a wall to the concrete riverbank below and then thrown in the river by the Romanian and his Cork girlfriend, whose face will be remembered by many for its swastika tattoo.