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'COLD-BLOODED' KILLER GUILTY OF PARTNER MURDER
Irish Daily Star
|April 02, 2025
A JURY has taken just three hours to convict a man who denied murdering his partner.
Daniel Blanaru, 37, made the plea despite evidence that he had beat Larisa Serban, 26, threatened her parents that he would kill her and told gardai: "I am guilty, I killed her. Please lock me up."
The trial of Blanaru ran for seven weeks, with a pre-trial hearing last year also lasting a number of weeks.
The jurors who began their deliberations yesterday accepted the prosecution case that young mother Ms Serban died as a result of a "sustained and brutal attack" on or about August 12, 2022.
It was at the hands of her "controlling and jealous" partner Blanaru, who murdered her "in cold blood".
This story is from the April 02, 2025 edition of Irish Daily Star.
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