Feb 29, 2024 · Luay Sako has been jailed for 36 years for obsessively stalking and killing Celeste Manno, but the victim's mother believes the punishment does not go far enough.

Feb 29, 2024 · Luay Sako broke into Celeste Manno's home in Melbourne in 2020 and stabbed her 23 times in two-and-a-half minutes. Prosecutors said the attack happened hours after she posted a photo online with...

May 30, 2022 · Luay Nader Sako, 36, of Roxburgh Park, last year pleaded not guilty to the brutal stabbing murder of Celeste Manno in anticipation of securing an assessment from a forensic psychiatrist that...

Mar 1, 2024 · Luay Nader Sako, 39, stabbed Ms Manno, 23, up to 23 times on November 16, 2020, as she slept in her own bed at her mother's house in Mernda, in Melbourne's north-east, where she thought she...

Mar 10, 2024 · Luay Nader Sako, 39, stalked Manno, a former colleague, for a year before he broke into the Mernda home she shared with her mother and brother in the early hours of November 16, 2020, and fatally stabbed her while she was in bed. She was six days away from her 24th birthday.

Jan 30, 2024 · Violent killer Luay Sako exaggerated mental illness to avoid facing trial for murder and "didn't want to be seen as a monster", a psychiatrist has told Victoria's Supreme Court. Sako, 39, is facing a pre-sentence hearing over the murder of Celeste Manno, a young woman he stalked and stabbed to death after breaking into her Melbourne home in 2020.

Mar 1, 2024 · The Australian man named Luay Sako stalked Celeste Manno for months before killing her on 16 November 2020. He stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife after she posted a photograph of her...

Five years ago, the 23-year-old's future was as bright as her personality. But that all came to an end when a colleague she briefly worked with became obsessed with her. A few days after Luay Sako was fired from his Melbourne call centre job, he contacted Celeste on Instagram.

Feb 29, 2024 · Luay Sako, 39, admitted to murdering Celeste Manno at her Mernda home in Melbourne's north east in the early hours of November 16, 2020. She had been asleep when he smashed through her bedroom ...

Feb 28, 2024 · Luay Sako has pleaded guilty to one charge of murder. A plea hearing (pre-sentencing hearing) was heard in front of Justice Jane Dixon of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 29 January, 30 January and 31 January. Justice Jane Dixon will sentence Mr Sako on 29 February 2024 at 3.00pm.