‘Do they want someone to be killed before they do anything?’

A convicted killer ‘repeatedly and brutally’ hacked his sister-in-law to death with a hatchet after threatening to murder her for months, a court heard today (weds). Nicolae Virtosu, 48, allegedly struck 53-year-old Svetlana Mihalachi repeatedly with the axe on 9 April last year in the home they shared in Barkingside, Ilford. In September 2009, Moldovan national Virtosu was convicted of strangling his wife, Anastasia Virtosu and his conviction for the ‘unlawful killing’ was known within the family. Also Moldovan, Ms…