Murder accused's phone had searched 'How to kill in three seconds', Cork court told
A garda told the jury of five men and seven women that Mr Pacheco’s Samsung phone had been analysed and gardaí found text messages to family and friends. Picture: Dan Linehan.
“How to kill in three seconds” appeared on the web history of the man who denies murdering his ex-girlfriend, and five minutes earlier he had texted his sister in Brazil to say: “I’ve kind of decided what I will do and I won’t tell anyone.” Sergeant Brian Barron gave this evidence from the phone records of Miller Pacheco at his trial at the Central Criminal Court in Cork where he denies the murder of Bruna Fonseca at his apartment at Liberty Street in Cork on January 1 2023.
Sgt Barron told the jury of five men and seven women that Mr Pacheco’s Samsung phone had been analysed and gardaí found text messages to his family and friends as well as to Bruna Fonseca, with whom he had been in a relationship. The relationship had ended days after his arrival in Cork in December 2022.
Among the messages they found was one that Miller sent to his sister, Millena, in Brazil just before midnight on December 19 2022 in which he asked her to look after his Shih Tzu dog, D’eagle before telling her: “I’ve kind of decided what I will do and I won’t tell anyone.”
Sgt Barron said that he did not expand on what he meant by that comment, but the analysis of his phone showed that five minutes later, he visited a website entitled ‘How to kill in three seconds’ which gave details of the massacre of a Brazilian family in Spain.
The analysis also revealed that just three minutes after that, there was a visit to another website entitled “What are the necessary conditions to kill someone” and then a minute after that, there was a visit to another website “Three ways to fight well with knives”.
On December 16 2022 Miller texted Bruna where he complained that she was putting him through hell.
She replied: “You didn’t understand that there’s no love left, no admiration in the relationship and still you chose to stay.” She told him to move on, repeating that the relationship was over.
Miller texted:
In another, he texted: “I wish you a lot of pleasure and happiness with the S.O.B you chose and met in three weeks and made me look like trash, being that you loved men and that we had a plan and that you led me to believe that here all our dreams would be wonderful and all our dreams with D’eagle.”
In some texts to Bruna, the pet dog is referred to by Miller as their ‘child’.
Miller sent an audio message: “You don’t feel anything, you don’t feel anything about me really, only wish to hurt me, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt and more and more and more and then go and be with someone else instead of me, that’s what you feel – it can only be that …. Go f*** yourself.
Two days later, he says that Bruna has stopped following him on Instagram, and says she is “moving on with your life in a cold way.”
Bruna texts back: “Miller, I am very sorry for everything that happened. I made a lot of mistakes and there are no words to describe how that hurts me and how much I regret it. But, unfortunately or fortunately - I don’t know – it helped me realise that we are not good for each other. I didn’t lie when I said I was happy you were coming (to Cork) and everything happened so fast here, you have been living this experience, things happen at maximum speed and intensity.
"That’s why I need to distance myself because for you, any sign of help is a light at the end of the tunnel, and I can’t give you hope because I don’t want us to get back together.”
She added: “There was no one else – he wasn’t the reason I broke up – I was. Me and me alone – I hope you will be alright, if you decide to go back (to Brazil), know your family will support you.”
The trial continues.
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