Mircea Cozmiuc: Abusive Instagram posts aimed at murder victim
Abusive and homophobic messages were posted online aimed at a Wolverhampton murder victim in the months before he was stabbed to death, a court heard.
Mircea Gheorghe Cozmiuc, aged 23, was stabbed more than 20 times in Carter Road, Whitmore Reans, where he had lived.
His alleged murderer, 37-year-old Sivan Amin, had lived with Mr Cozmiuc at that address until June 12 last year when he was 'booted out' after police were called following a row.
It was after that date a series of abusive messages were posted publicly on the photo-sharing service Instagram featuring pictures of Mr Cozmiuc, his friends and his family.
Several of these were homophobic in nature, using words such as "gays" and "homo rats" to accompany pictures of Mr Cozmiuc with Andrei Bourceanu, who had also lived at the Carter Road home.
Giving evidence at Birmingham Crown Court, Mr Bourceanu said it could "only" have been Amin who had posted the messages.
He said: "They started to appear after he left and the messages can be made only by him because we had no trouble here in England for as long as we stayed.
"The only problem we had was this one, that he eventually didn't want to leave."
The jury in the trial were previously told the Instagram messages were posted from five different accounts which could be linked, the prosecution allege.
Romanian Mr Cozmiuc, who worked at Amazon in Rugeley, was murdered on September 3.
Amin, of Merridale Street West, denies his murder.
The trial continues.
