Rohit Deepak Singh, 42, has been on trial at the High Court in Auckland charged with the murder of Arishma Chand, 24, who was found stabbed to death at her south Auckland home in November last year.
Over the last four weeks, the court has had an insight in to the "obsessive" man Singh had become, with that obsession driving him to kill his ex-girlfriend.
On the morning of November 12, 2017 Chand was found dead at her home in Manurewa after she had returned home with her boyfriend.
The Crown's case was that Mr Singh was a jealous ex-boyfriend who became infatuated with Ms Chand during a brief closerelationship in 2016.
The pair met through Ms Chand's father, who had worked with Mr Singh for a decade in Fiji.
Mr Singh and Ms Chand entered a close relationship, kept secret from her parents, when she and her 3-year-old daughter boarded with him in his Flat Bush home.
When Singh told her father she was pregnant in July 2016, Chand ended the relationship and t got an abortion.
Singh refused to accept the break-up and began stalking her. He was messaging her on an almost-daily basis and sending her flowers on Valentine’s Day.
Singh went to a tattoo parlour and had a picture of Ms Chand’s face tattooed on his chest. He then sent a picture of this tattoo to Ms Chand; presumably with the hope that she would change her mind.
But all in veil and then Mr. Singh finally was looking a chance to kill her.
Ms Chand was by her parents in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor in their family home on Maich Rd.
She had 26 stab wounds to her body found on her face, hands, fatally, her femoral artery.
Ms Chand had also been struck on the back of the head eight times with a heavy, blunt instrument.
Rohit Singh was found guilty of murder and will be sentenced on February 14.
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