Man who told gardaí he was ‘so drunk’ he couldn’t remember fatally stabbing sister’s partner is found guilty of manslaughter

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Valeriu Melnic will be sentenced in November

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A 24-year-old man who told gardaí he was “so drunk” that he couldn’t remember fatally stabbing his sister’s partner once in the chest with a kitchen knife following a dispute has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by a Central Criminal Court jury.

The panel of eight men and four women unanimously rejected the prosecution case that Valeriu Melnic was guilty of murder, despite evidence he had told Ion Daghi “I will kill you” when the deceased had tried to calm him down. The State had submitted this was the “clearest statement of intent” that the jury were likely to encounter.

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