Student stabs girlfriend 51 times using such force blade snapped in jealous rage after she refused to tell him phone pin

A MEDICAL student ruthlessly stabbed his girlfriend 51 times because she wouldn’t tell him her phone pin in a horrific jealous row.

The victim’s dad described his daughter’s murderer as “an animal” because so much force was used that the blade snapped during the brutal attack.

Mirel Dragomir, 25, was jailed for 25 years for killing his girlfriend, fellow student Andreea Morega, 21.

The tragic murder unfolded in his apartment in Timisoara, western Romania, in March 2024.

Andreea, who studied Medicine at Victor Babes University in Timisoara was due to travel home for the weekend but had visited her boyfriend’s flat before catching her bus.

An argument broke out after he demanded her mobile phone to check who she had been talking to.

He seized it by force and insisted she give him the PIN, but she refused and told him she no longer wanted to see him.

Enraged, Dragomir then grabbed a knife from the kitchen and launched a frenzied attack, stabbing Andreea 51 times in her neck and chest.

The assault was so violent that the blade snapped off, but shockingly, Dragomir took a second knife and continued stabbing the defenceless victim.

He left her for dead in the apartment and fled, before police found him hours later in his home village in the county of Caras Severin.

According to the victim’s dad, Adrian Morega, Dragomir tried to obtain a lighter punishment by asking for an expert report to establish at which knife blow Andreea died.

He had argued that if she had died at the first blows, it would not count as a death “through cruelty”.

However, the request was rejected, and the High Court of Cassation and Justice confirmed Dragomir’s 25-year prison term previously handed down by the Court of Appeal in Timisoara.

The final verdict was announced on 23rd November, and Dragomir was also ordered to pay £87,355 in moral damages and £6,007 in costs to each of Andreea’s parents.

Her grieving dad said the trial, which lasted more than a year and a half, has deeply affected them.

During the appeals, the parents continued to receive notifications from the courts, a constant reminder of the trauma they are going through.

He said: “I don’t know how to express myself, there are no words.

“He’s an animal, he’s not a human. I can’t consider him a human. Such a person should never have the right to get out of prison, to enjoy a day of freedom.”