The jury heard that Gavin’s phone had searched for ‘prison sentence for murder in Ireland’ on the day before the stabbing
A man who was messaging women on Tinder just minutes before he stabbed his one-time friend in the neck has been found guilty of murder.
The jury, members of which heard that Gavin’s phone had been used to search online for “prison sentence for murder in Ireland” on the day before the stabbing, rejected the defence’s case that the accused had lashed out in fear and was not a murderer.
State pathologist Dr SallyAnn Collis told the jury that, despite medical intervention at the scene, Mr Mamaliga suffered hypoxic brain injury which was caused by the deprivation of oxygen to the brain due to blood loss. Witness David Octavian described to the jury the seconds-long window during which a “calm and collected” assailant got into the car he was sitting in, “slowly took out a knife” and stabbed his friend in the neck before fleeing. Asked if he knew Gavin, the witness said: “Yes, we used to hang around together as a group when we were younger. We used to be friends.”
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