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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Pennink

Romanian killer guilty of ‘strikingly similar’ second murder in UK just years after release from prison

Neamtu was convicted at the Old Bailey - (Getty)

A foreign killer who served a prison sentence in Romania for murder went on to commit an almost identical fatal stabbing in east London just three years after his release, it can now be reported following his conviction.

Eugeniu Neamtu, 59, who went by the name Jimmy, was convicted and jailed in his home country in May 2007 after stabbing his housemate in the chest during a drunken dispute over money.

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