Bruna Fonseca murder case delayed due to unavailability of interpreter

Miller Pacheco is charged with the murder of Bruna Fonseca at Liberty Street, Cork, on January 1 contrary to Common Law.

Bruna Fonseca (pictured) was a native of Formiga in Minas Gerais province, northwest of Rio de Janiero, and was a qualified librarian, who had come to Cork in September and had been working as a contract cleaner at the Mercy University Hospital.  File picture

No Portuguese interpreter was available on Monday for the case against the 29-year-old man accused of murdering young Brazilian woman Bruna Fonseca in Cork on New Year’s Day, so the case had to be adjourned until March 1.

The accused man appeared by video link from Cork prison at Cork District Court. It emerged that no interpreter was available to translate the matter.