The crazed boyfriend who fatally stabbed his Queens bartender gal pal was sentenced Friday — because the sufferer’s household ripped the heartless killer as a “pathetic coward” who took away a “stunning” soul.
Marcin Pieciak, 37, was sentenced to 24 years in jail for the brutal assault by which he stabbed his Irish girlfriend Sarah McNally 19 occasions whereas she labored contained in the Ceili Home Bar in Maspeth, Queens on March 30, 2024.
Kin of McNally, a 41-year-old bar employee who was courting Pieciak on the time of her demise, penned an emotional victim-impact assertion slamming the lowlife for taking away their cherished one.
“No girl ought to ever lose her life as a result of she needs to go away a relationship,” McNally’s grieving kinfolk wrote within the assertion, learn in Queens Supreme Court docket throughout the listening to.
“Mr. Pieciak thought he had the appropriate to take the lifetime of a lady, relatively than stroll away and go away her,” the letter stated. “He made a alternative that day and he selected to be a weak, pathetic coward.”
McNally’s heartbroken members of the family weren’t current at Pieciak’s sentencing, however stated within the assertion learn in court docket by Assistant District Lawyer Gabriel Reale that the lives of everybody who knew her had been “shattered” by her slaying.
“You’ve made our world a a lot darker place having taken Sarah from it,” their letter stated.
“Sarah lit up any room she walked into. She was heat and loving and all the time had a smile on her face,” the kinfolk wrote.
“She was fascinating, assured and charming and he or she ought to nonetheless be right here with us. You could have taken her gentle from us all.”
McNally was working on the pub when Pieciak barged in and got here as much as her behind the bar — when he pulled out a knife and repeatedly stabbed her within the neck, again and neck, prosecutors stated.
Surveillance video that captured the assault was “one of the gut-wrenching issues I’ve ever seen,” Reale informed Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant throughout the listening to.
Pieciak — a daily who met McNally whereas she labored on the hole-in-the-wall — tried to slice his personal throat a number of occasions after the assault, in line with prosecutors.
He then tried to make a run for it, however was stopped by a bar patron, the Queens District Lawyer’s Workplace stated.
When cops arrived, Pieciak had a blade in every hand and was bleeding from his self-inflicted knife wounds, police stated.
Officers had been capable of arrest him after they tased him with their stun weapons when he refused to drop the weapons.
The sufferer was left mendacity on the barroom’s flooring and later pronounced lifeless at a neighborhood hospital.
She suffered a broken carotid artery and a severed backbone which resulted in her demise, officers stated.
The Longford native had been residing together with her Pieciak for a number of months in Glendale — however had informed coworkers that she was contemplating shifting again to Eire as a result of “the connection was not going nicely,” officers have stated.
Pieciak, who pleaded responsible to manslaughter within the first diploma in October, requested for forgiveness throughout the listening to.
“Daily and each night time, I take into consideration Sarah,” he stated. “And I’ve no solutions for you… I hope that someday you may forgive me, that’s all.”
