In 2020, Luay Sako came into Celeste Manno’s Melbourne home and stabbed her twenty-three times in less than two and a half minutes.
The attack, according to the prosecution, took place hours after she uploaded a picture of herself with her new partner online.
Sako’s life sentence was what the family of Ms. Manno felt should have happened after Thursday’s decision.
In 2019, after he was let go from the contact center where they both worked, he started following Ms. Manno, 23.
He started messaging her, and even though Ms. Manno begged him to stop, his communications become more and more frantic and obsessional.
After reporting Sako to the police, Ms. Manno was successful in obtaining a temporary protection order.
He was then accused of violating the order, but he remained unfazed.
