The brother of a man driven off a pier and drowned has hit out at his killer ten years after the murder.
Zoltan Sandor said Marta Herda robbed his 31-year-old brother Csaba Orsos of a future and he will never forgive her for taking his life.
Evil Herda knew her passenger Csaba could not swim when she drove her Volkswagen Passat through the crash barriers at the quays in Arklow, Co Wicklow, shortly before 6am on March 26, 2013.
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She escaped through the driver’s window but the body of her work colleague Csaba was found on a nearby beach later that day.
The Polish waitress, who claimed Csaba was in love with her and used to follow her home, was convicted of murder in 2016 and given a life sentence.
Heartbroken Zoltan told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “I will never forgive her. Before he died, I met with my brother in a hotel for breakfast and he was so happy because he was seeing her. He had a big smile and was so happy. I told him to leave her as I believed she was just playing games with him.
“But he smiled and told me he would be safe. Three days later my brother was murdered.”
Herda’s trial was told Csaba spent two years following her, phoning her and sending her messages.
She told detectives they were constantly arguing about their relationship and that they had been rowing in the car when she drove into the water.
She denied deliberately driving off the pier, but later told gardai: “When I drove into the water, I wanted this all to stop.”
Zoltan said: “If I was to meet with her [Herda] I don’t know what I would say because no words would express the pain of the last ten years.
“All I wish for her is that she feels the same pain as what we have.”
Speaking of his strong bond with his brother, he added: “He always looked after me. He always looked after my mother, my brother and two sisters too.
“When I lost him something died in my heart. My mother died one year ago too and my kids can only visit their uncle now at the cemetery.
“I hope she [Herda] stays in jail for the rest of her life.”
Call records entered in evidence during Herda’s trial show she rang Hungarian national Csaba three times shortly after 5am on the day he died.
Gardai put it to her that she had “lured him out of his house”.
Zoltan said his brother just wanted a wife and family more than anything else in life. He added: “All my brother wanted was a normal happy life with a nice lady and kids.
“My wife was five months pregnant when he was killed and we had told him we wanted him to be a godfather to my daughter, and he couldn’t wait.”
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