An Irishman living in Sydney was stabbed to death on Wednesday night while eating dinner in a Westfield Hornsby restaurant.
Fifty-three-year-old Keith Collins, who is understood to be from Dublin, was out for a first date with care nurse Jovi Pilapil, when a man, believed to be Pilapil’s ex-husband Alexander Villaluna, entered the establishment, took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed both Pilapil and Collins, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
According to the publication Mr. Collins, who is a father, died at the scene after receiving stab wounds to the neck and throat.
Ms. Pilapil, who was stabbed in the chest managed to escape the scene and is awaiting surgery at the Royal North Shore Hospital.
A witness told the paper that the attacker seemed “eerily calm.”
He said: “It’s almost like it was an out-of-body experience for him. He probably sat down wondering what to do. He was eerily calm as though it didn’t really matter.”
Mr Villaluna has been charged with murder and attempted murder. He was refused bail in local court today.
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