Lucian Stinci who battered Florina Pastina to death with a hammer
A hotel worker has admitted battering a primary school teacher to death with a hammer after a night watching hours of extreme porn while taking cocaine.
Lucian Stinci, 34, became obsessed with housemate Florina Pastina, 36, and had even installed a spy camera in the shower so he could film her.
After the brutal assault at the home they shared in Croydon, south London, he also assaulted her 25-year-old nephew and his twin sister who also lived there.
Stinci, today pleaded guilty to murdering Florina on July 19 last year when he appeared at the Old Bailey.
She suffered multiple skull fractures to her head following the attack and died in hospital two days later.
The killer, who came to the UK from his native Romania ten years ago, was infatuated with Florina – who was also from Romania – and bought her presents, telling pals that he loved her.
After she was murdered police found Valentine’s Day and birthday cards from him in her room. One read: “For the most beautiful creature in the universe.”
But Stinci, who was working as a supervisor for Mayday hotels in Croydon, was secretly filming her in the shower, and kept seven videos and four images on a hard drive.
The night before he killed the teacher, who worked in a school in Thornton Heath., Stinci had accessed extreme porn websites for over six hours, which showed women being tortured, raped, tied up and killed.
Ms Pastina was found to have 18 lacerations to the head, with extensive haemorrhage on the underneath her scalp
Police later found a quantity of cocaine in Stinci’s room and tests revealed he had taken cocaine and a high dose of the erectile dysfunction drug Sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra.
The Old Bailey heard shortly before 7am on the day she was killed a neighbour heard a man shouting at a woman, who was whimpering and pleading.
Her nephew Nicholas Hellen was woken by loud sounds from the kitchen, came out of his bedroom and saw Stinci walking away looking breathless and sweaty.
As he walked past he felt a blow to the back of his head, and they started to struggle. Mr Hellen’s twin Claudia Pastina then came downstairs and tried to intervene, but Stinci pushed the pointed end of the hammer into her stomach.
The siblings then managed to grab the hammer and throw it out of the door, and Claudia grabbed a wine bottle and smashed it over Stinci’s head.
Emergency services were called at 7.22am, and when they arrived they found Florina lying on her back in the kitchen fully clothed.
Although she was not responsive she was moving her arms, her breathing was laboured, and she had a catastrophic injury to the left side of her head.
She was taken to King’s College Hospital her life support machine was switched off the next day, and she died at 1.15am on July 21.
A post mortem found 18 cuts to the head, with extensive haemorrhage underneath her scalp, and a pathologist concluded the injuries were from a blunt force trauma.
Mr Hellen had a 3cm cut to the side of his head which required three stitches, and Claudia had a bruise to her arm.
At the Old Bailey today Stinci also admitted assault causing actual bodily harm to Ms Pastina, unlawfully wounding Mr Hellen, and possessing cocaine. He denied a count of attempted murder of Mr Hellen.
Judge Richard Marks QC, the Common Serjeant of London, adjourned sentencing to a later date.