Bruna Fonseca’s life and death: Inside the Cork murder trial

Court reporter Liam Heylin discusses the murder trial that exposed obsession, coercive control and the killing of Bruna Fonseca

Bruna Fonseca was killed in January 2023. 

In 2022, 28-year-old Brazilian librarian Bruna Fonseca fulfilled a lifelong dream when she travelled to Ireland.

She attended English classes in Cork, sent money home from her work as a hospital cleaner, and embarked on a new relationship with a fellow student when her life was brutally cut short by Miller Pacheco — an obsessive ex-boyfriend who refused to accept that their relationship was over.