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Qns. man recalls girlfriend he stabbed to death during sentencing hearing

A Queens man who admitted to viciously stabbing his girlfriend to death after a verbal squabble, awkwardly reminisced with the court today about his artistic and talented victim.

“I’m deeply grieving that Susan is dead,” said Tigran Tambiev before he was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Queens Supreme Court Justice Gregory Lasak for killing aspiring sculptor Susan Woolf on Dec. 11, 2009.

Woolf, 49 moved to Long Island City from Massachusetts to pursue her career in environmental-themed art.

“I appreciated Susan and was content and proud of her artistic projects,” her cold-blooded killer bizarrely claimed as he read from a handwritten letter offering his sympathy to Woolf’s sisters and friends crying in the courtroom.

“We’ve been robbed of decades of Susan’s spirit, talents and love. Her death shattered our lives,” said Woolf’s heartbroken sister, Karen Ingle.

Tambiev, 46, plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter for repeatedly stabbing his lover in the back and chest butchering her body with two knives “like cattle,” said Justice Lasak.

After the bloodshed, Tambiev fled their apartment and was found a month later in Miami Beach, Fla. armed with a one-way ticket to Cancun, said prosecutors.

Woolf’s body was found the next day by a friend who went to check on her.

“I’m sorry Susan is not here and I’m sorry we met under these circumstances,” he said as he turned to look at his victim’s loved ones.