The 'Beast' Who Murdered Celeste Manno Will One Day Walk Free
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On the night of November 16th, 2020, 23 year old Celeste Manno was stabbed to death in her bed.
The murderer was a man she'd met very briefly at work over a year before who'd been stalking her relentlessly ever since.
Luay Sako, 39, smashed through her bedroom window with a hammer and stabbed Celeste 23 times in two and a half minutes.
By the time her mother, Aggie, was woken by the commotion and made it down the hallway to her daughter's bedroom, it was too late.
Earlier this year, Sako was sentenced to 36 years in prison with a minimum of 30. It came as a great shock and disappointment to Celeste's family and their supporters who'd hoped for a life sentence.
There was further disappointment when the Office of Public Prosecutions announced they would not pursue the option to seek a life sentence on appeal.
Aggie Di Mauro and her son Alessandro Manno are our guests today on Australian True Crime. They're here to share their story with us, but also to tell us about their campaign to change the way our legal system deals not only with stalking but also with sentencing.
Links to support Celeste Manno's family:
Sign the petition for Mandatory Life Sentences for Murder
Event for Celeste's Ride for Justice Rally (May 26th at Parliament House, Melbourne)
Celeste's Ride for Justice Facebook group
For Support:
Lifeline on 13 11 14
13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples)
1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732
CREDITS:
Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Aggie Di Mauro & Alessandro Manno
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
This episode contains extra content from 60 Minutes, 9 News and ABC News.
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.5 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.0 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.3 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:41.9 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:57.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | It was like something I just never heard. |
| 1:12.0 | It was like a million pieces of glass just crushing and all of a |
| 1:19.6 | sudden I heard. So I remember just going Celess and I just ran out of bed and I'm just screaming her name down the hallway. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm going Celess, sweetie, what happened? And I realized that I'm running all over glass and I'm seeing blood. I still don't get it and I'm pulling her out of the bed. |
| 1:36.4 | She's not helping me out of it. But I see all that glass and so I thought I didn't want to drop her and all that. |
| 1:43.0 | Outside security footage shows Seiko fleeing in his car. |
| 1:48.0 | As the paramedics arrive inside, Aggie is desperately fighting to save her daughter's life. |
| 1:54.0 | Breathe, sweetie, please don't leave me, don't leave me. |
| 1:58.0 | And then one of them stops me and he says, |
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