A man who stabbed his ex-wife and her Tinder date as they dined has been jailed.
Alexander Villaluna was sentenced to at least 30 years in jail on Thursday, 9News reports.
The 45-year-old previously pleaded guilty to murdering Keith Collins, 53, and wounding nurse Jovi Pilapil, 39, with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm on the evening of March 30, 2016.
Alexander Villaluna (pictured left) was sentenced to at least 30 years in jail on Thursday
Mr Collins, a divorced father of four children and three step-children, was on his first date with Ms Pilapil at the Kangan restaurant, at the Hornsby Westfield shopping centre, when he was stabbed 12 times.
Villaluna had been very possessive and jealous in his relationship with Ms Pilapil, which ended in November 2015, two months before she was granted an interim Apprehended Domestic Violence Order.
On the night of the murder, he had gone looking for Ms Pilapil, armed with a hunting knife and wearing a camouflage backpack.
Finding her at the restaurant with a man, Villaluna asked him: ‘What are you doing with my wife?’
Keith Collins (left) was on his first date with Jovi Pilapil (right) when he was stabbed 12 times
‘The offender grabbed at his neck with his left arm and began stabbing into his right lower abdomen with vigorous underhanded thrusts,’ the agreed statement of facts said.
After Mr Collins fell to the ground, Villaluna stabbed Ms Pilapil twice before returning to Mr Collins and knifing him again.
Later, when asked if he wanted to write a letter of apology to the dead man’s family, his initial reaction was: ‘I could never do it because I am still angry at what happened to me’.
On the night of the murder, he had gone looking for Ms Pilapil, armed with a hunting knife and wearing a camouflage backpack
Villaluna is seen being taken into custody in the Kangan restaurant inside the Hornsby Westfield shopping centre
‘I can’t even read my devotional books for the lord,’ he continued in his statement, which was read out by his barrister Angus Webb at his sentence hearing in the NSW Supreme Court last month.
In his written ‘apology’, Villaluna cited passages from the Bible, saying he had forgotten to love God with all his heart and offered his ‘deepest sympathy and condolences’ for ‘the family of the slain’.