Mihalache Marian loses murder conviction appeal

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Mihalache Marian lost his murder conviction appeal in the Court of Appeal, reported on 12 February 2015. The conviction concerned the killing of Loradena Pricajan in a hotel room at the Irish Management Institute in Sandyford on 27 January 2010.

Marian had pleaded not guilty before a Central Criminal Court jury, which found him guilty and resulted in the mandatory life sentence. The Court of Appeal dismissed his challenge, finding sufficient circumstantial evidence supported the murder verdict. The report said Marian had claimed Pricajan took her own life, a possibility the appeal court considered extremely unlikely.