Trial begins for man in murder of Manhattan Fashion Designer Cachay charged

     The trial of a man accused of killing a Manhattan designer began on Friday. The

The friend of the victim accused of strangling the girl, but her defender said

not get up the evidence.

The family of Sylvie Cachay was repeated an endless nightmare for the last two years.

"This is terrible. I have no words to describe the tragedy that we had, say," Sylvia Cachay, the

The mother of the woman, CBS 2 Janelle Burrell said Wednesday.

His parents confronted the accused assassin of Sylvie, Nicholas Brooks, 26, in court on Friday as

Prosecutors detail how he strangled and swimsuit designers have drowned in the

exclusive Soho House Hotel.

Cachay's body was found partially clothed and submerged in a bathtub in December 2010.

"I can not even tell you how cruel it was time in my life," says Sylvia.

Prosecutors described Brooks as an opportunist, using the unemployed Peruvian woman

to finance his lifestyle and habits of marijuana.