Counsel for Andrei Dobra told the jury his client would admit to strangling Ioana Mihaela Pacala to 'alleviate the burden' on the State. Photograph: Colin Keegan/CollinsA security guard who admits strangling his partner to death was “blank, vacant and detached” when gardaí entered his Co Meath home, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
Roxana Devan told Carl Hanahoe BL, for the prosecution, that she knew Mr Dobra for a number of years through her ex-boyfriend. Mr Dobra worked in Cappagh Hospital and as a security guard in Temple Bar, she said.Cathal Lombard’s Olympics story sounded too good to be true. In the end, it was On the day of the killing, Ms Devan received a call from Ms Pacala’s family in Romania and was told she was unconscious and they wanted to get an ambulance to the house. Ms Devan called the emergency services to direct them and then phoned Mr Dobra. She said she asked to speak to Ms Pacala but he told her: “You can’t be talking to her because I think she is dead.” He told her he had a dream that he was killing Ms Pacala and woke up next to her and saw she was dead.
Mr Dobra led gardaí into a bedroom where Ms Pacala was lying dead on the bed. The accused remained “completely compliant” with a blank, vacant and detached expression, the garda said.When asked what had happened, Mr Dobra told Garda Fitzpatrick: “She gave me tablets to drink and then I don’t remember.”
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