‘Monster’ who allegedly left his teenage girlfriend in a ‘pool of blood’ arrested at Dublin airport after fleeing the country

A man who allegedly assaulted his girlfriend before fleeing the country was arrested after returning to Dublin airport.

The alleged attacker, in his 20s, left Ireland hours after his teenage partner was found in a “pool of blood”.

Last week it emerged how the alleged attacker knelt on the girl’s body and repeatedly struck her in the face for cheating claims.

But he has returned from his home country of Brazil and surrendered to gardai after taking a connecting flight from Portugal before arriving in Dublin on Sunday afternoon.

A source said that the man’s family had received several death threats, which is why he turned himself in.

The source said: “It is understood that the man contacted a close friend of the victim to confirm his return.

“He said that he and his family were receiving death threats, so he decided to return to Ireland to turn himself in.

“He sent details of the plane tickets to gardai to inform them about their flight times and so that they could inform other police authorities in Portugal.”

The text he read before the savage assault is said to have been from another man who said he was interested in the victim. The young woman had not even responded to the message.

The brave teenage victim recounted how she woke up to the man “kneeling on her arms and using his face like a punching bag.”

Speaking to Dublin Live, the victim said it was the first time she had laid her finger on him, but promised it would be the last.

She said: “We’ve been together for eight months. I live in Dublin and he lives in Meath, but we met in Dublin. It was the first time he did that. I couldn’t believe he would do such a thing. Such a nice person.”

The traumatized teenager began to notice a change in her boyfriend’s personality in recent months when he started checking his phone more frequently.

She said of her ex, who is also Brazilian: “He started to get very possessive and jealous, but he never hurt me. He was always checking my phone for fear that I would cheat, but I never did.”

The vile assault occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning, when the man set out to ‘kill’ his partner while she slept at home.

“I was at his house with some friends. I went to sleep and while I was sleeping, he decided to go over some old messages, messages that he had received before we were together.

“He went crazy. He accused me of cheating on him, that I had this ‘feeling’ about my infidelities from the old messages on my phone.”

She says she doesn’t quite remember that the incident started, waking up with her attacker on top of her.

She continues: “His knees held my arms close to my body and then he started punching me in the face.

“I begged him to stop, I begged him not to kill me, but he kept saying he was going to kill me, no matter what.”

In the midst of his worst nightmare, his roommates heard his deafening screams and opened the door to his room to find the victim in a pool of blood, crying in agony.

“They tried to get him to stop, but he was very aggressive. When he stopped hitting me, I ran away and hid.

“I was so scared that I didn’t want anyone to find me. I was scared the job would finish.”

Once her friends found her, they immediately took her to the hospital.

She worriedly admitted on Dublin Live that the attack left her with a blood clot in her left eye and that she “could lose her sight.”

What’s even more shocking is the fact that her boyfriend allegedly admitted to the savage assault on social media.

Posting on a Facebook status, she said: “Yes, I actually hit her, she deserved it, she is a prostitute because she was cheating on me, everyone knew it except me, so yes, she deserved what I did to her.

“I attacked her because she’s a whore, because she was cheating on me under my roof and making a cup of me.

“She is a whore, I did not try to kill her, I made a mistake, I lost my mind, but what she did was much worse than what I did.

“Anyone else would have done the same in my place. But I’m a man and I can admit my mistakes. I want to see if she can do the same and admit her mistake as I can.

“You can judge all you want, but I have never done anything wrong to anyone. Everyone who knows me knows that is the truth, including you.”

In another post he added: “Judge, point your finger, it’s easy. I admitted my mistake but I did it because I had a great reason. Don’t throw the first stone if you have a glass ceiling. I’m not a coward.” Anyone who knows me knows that I would never do something like that if I didn’t have a reason.

“What I did was nothing compared to what she did. She destroyed my life. What I did to her was nothing compared to what she made me lose, but I didn’t try to kill her.”

But she reiterates to Dublin Live: “But I never really cheated on him, the messages he saw were from before we were together.”

A Garda spokesperson told Dublin Live: “A man, in his 20s, was arrested today on 11/08/2020 in connection with this incident.

He added: “He was detained at a Garda station under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.”