Overview
- The accused, Miller Pacheco, 32, denies murdering 28-year-old Bruna Fonseca, who was found dead at a Liberty Street flat on 1 January 2023.
- Garda analysis outlined December 2022 web activity including pages titled 'How to kill in three seconds' and 'Three ways to fight well with knives,' after a text to his sister saying he had 'kind of decided' what he was going to do.
- The defence suggested he had searched about ending his own life and highlighted that the precise search terms leading to those pages were not established, with evidence also noting queries about the cost of repatriating a body to Brazil.
- Jurors heard that Pacheco sent nearly 2,000 messages to Ms Fonseca over six weeks as she repeatedly told him the relationship was over, while he accused her of replacing him and called her a 'bad person' on Christmas Day.
- Earlier testimony included Brazilian friends saying he stated on FaceTime 'I killed Bruna' and showed her body, partygoers describing a New Year’s Eve encounter with Ms Fonseca, and witnesses recounting jealousy and threats; the trial continues Monday before Ms Justice Siobhan Lankford.