A Queens man was sentenced Friday to 24 years in prison for fatally stabbing his former girlfriend inside the Maspeth pub where she worked, an attack prosecutors said occurred as she prepared to return home to Ireland after living in New York for a decade.

Marcin Pieciak, 37, appeared in Queens Supreme Court on Nov. 21 wearing beige prison garb with his hands cuffed, keeping his head down for much of the proceeding. He pleaded guilty last month to first-degree manslaughter in the March 2024 killing of 41-year-old Sarah McNally.

Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant imposed the negotiated sentence of 24 years followed by five years of post-release supervision, calling the surveillance footage of the attack “one of the most horrifying videos” she had ever seen.

McNally, originally from County Longf

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