Man accused of murdering Bruna Fonseca thought 'if I can’t have her, nobody can', prosecution says

Defence senior counsel, Ray Boland, said there was emotional manipulation of the jury by the prosecution in what he described as a character assassination of Miller Pacheco

The court was told that Miller Pacheco was 'in genuine psychic turmoil'. File picture: Dan Linehan

The man on trial for murdering a young Brazilian woman in Cork was characterised as a self-absorbed coward who weaponised victimhood and suicide in an attempt to manipulate the woman before murdering her because “if I can’t have her, no one can”. 

The defence described Wednesday’s prosecution closing speech as a character assassination of the defendant and said there was absolutely no evidence of the accused man thinking that if he could not have the young woman, then nobody could.