Luay Sako: stalker jailed for at least 30 years for stabbing Celeste Manno to death in Melbourne home

Sako sentenced for the murder of his former colleague who he harassed over an 18-month period

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The man who stalked and stabbed Melbourne woman Celeste Manno to death in her bed has been sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison.

Luay Sako, 39, was sentenced in the Victorian supreme court on Thursday, after he pleaded guilty last year to murdering his former colleague in 2020. The killing had followed a campaign of stalking and harassment of Manno, 23, that had been carried out over about 18 months.

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