A 39-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of his wife in Dublin four years ago.
Renato Gehlen, who is originally from Brazil, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Anne Colomines in Dorset Square, Gardiner Street Upper, on 25 October 2017.
The 37-year-old French woman was stabbed to death.
The jury at the Central Criminal Court rejected his claim that her wounds were self-inflicted.
They found him guilty this afternoon by a unanimous verdict.
Gehlen will be sentenced next month and faces the mandatory term of life in prison.
Ms Colomines' mother and sister were in court today when the jury returned its verdict.
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The French woman came to Ireland and worked in Paypal, where she met Gehlen, who also worked in Paypal. They married in October 2012.
However, in the months leading up to her violent death, the marriage was in very serious difficulty.
Ms Colomines had told her husband she wanted a divorce and he became very upset and wanted to "revive and repair" the relationship.
However, he discovered that Ms Colomines had met someone else in France in the summer of 2017.
On the night of her murder, Ms Colomines exchanged 296 messages with her new French boyfriend.
It was 30 minutes after the last exchange at 11.06pm, that gardaí and the emergency services discovered her body in her bedroom.
She had been stabbed four times. One was a 22cm incision to her throat. She also had cuts to her hands consistent with defensive wounds.
Gehlen told gardaí his wife had stabbed herself, but the State Pathologist said this was "highly unlikely".
Prosecution counsel Shane Costelloe told the jury that Gehlen displayed the "ultimate in toxic masculinity" by stabbing his wife to death in an effort to control the end of their marriage.
He "lost control" of his wife and his marriage and could not handle it, so he stabbed her through the heart, he said.
Mr Costelloe also told the jury that Gehlen's account of Ms Colomines having stabbed herself was "ridiculous" and "insulting" to them.
However, defence counsel Seamus Clarke submitted in his closing statement that the prosecution had not excluded the possibility that the deceased's injuries were self-inflicted.
It was entirely possible, he said, that the "struggle over the knife", where Gehlen said his wife had plunged the knife into the middle of her chest, could have happened.
The jury deliberated for two hours and 30 minutes over the past two days, before this afternoon returning a unanimous verdict of guilty of murder.
