“I was looking in her eyes as she died”: Jilted teenager tracks his ex-girlfriend from Facebook posts then strangles her

A jilted teenager strangled his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend after using her Facebook posts to track her movements in Romania.

Eduard Vaida, 17, began stalking Paula Dindiligan when she ended their two-year relationship alleging that he had hit her after becoming overly jealous.

After his arrest, he immediately confessed to the murder, he told police: ‘I was looking in her eyes as she died.’

He dragged the girl from the road as he made her way home from an ice rink in the town of Baia Sprie in northern Romania.

Detectives spotted that she had left the skating rink using CCTV images and later made the grim discovery of her dead body lying on a patch of waste ground.

Ex-boyfriend Vaida was immediately suspected by police and when he was arrested he admitted to the crime, claiming he had been drunk when he dragged off the road and killed her.

He said: ‘I put my hands around her neck as I lay on top of her and I strangled her. I was looking in her eyes as she died.’

The teenager is being examined by a psychiatrist and, if found to be sane and convicted, as a minor he could face up to 10 years in a detention center.