Man faces life sentence after being found guilty of murdering Bruna Fonseca in Cork

There was finally a release of emotion from family and friends of Bruna Fonseca this afternoon as they burst into tears and embraced each other at the unanimous verdict

Miller Pacheco, aged 32, has been found guilty of the murder of his former girlfriend Bruna Fonseca by a jury at the Central Criminal Court 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.