23-year-old Celeste Manno was killed by a relentless and obsessive stalker – her former co-worker – just hours after she posted a photo with her new boyfriend.
Luay Sako wasn’t a friend, he was a coworker – and only for a brief period of time.
In 2019, he was fired from the call centre where they both worked. That’s when he started sending her messages.
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Celeste took all the steps she could to protect herself. She blocked him on social media, went to the police, and even got an intervention order. But that didn’t stop Sako from haunting Celeste’s life.
The court heard Sako cross-referenced her social media posts with Google Maps to find her family home – he even used a floor plan of the house to pinpoint her room.
On the night of November 16, 2020, He broke in with a hammer and stabbed her to death.
The Supreme Court sentenced Sako to 36-years in jail. Celeste’s mum, Aggie Di Mauro, said Sako should have been jailed for life.
Between 2021 to 2022, one in five women and one in 15 men were stalked. This includes maintained unwanted contact online, or by phone, loitering around their home or work, following them in person or tracking them electronically.
Aggie is now determined to seek change. She wants to see stronger stalking regulations, ankle monitors for stalker, and life sentences for murder.
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