How Man murdered, Ate His Mother After Cutting Her Into Pieces | SEE DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
May 06, 2021
A Spanish man has been convicted of murdering and eating his 68-year-old mother after cutting her up into tiny pieces.
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Alberto Sanchez Gomez, 28, was branded the cannibal killer of Ventas, the area of Madrid where he lived with his mother, Maria Soledad Gomez after his arrest.
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Gomez was found guilty on Wednesday, May 5, of strangling his mother, dismembered her body and ate part of her remains for over two weeks.
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Mail Online reported that the jurors, six women, and three men, also dismissed Sanchez Gomez's claims he was experiencing a 'psychotic episode' when he murdered and dismembered his mother.
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State prosecutors demanded a 15 year and five-month prison sentence for Alberto if convicted of homicide and desecration of a human corpse when his two-week murder trial started on April 19 at Madrid's Audiencia Provincial court.
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The judge will now decide how long he should be jailed for in the next few days.
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Sanchez Gomez told police who arrested him at their flat in Madrid on February 21, 2019, that he had been eating his mum 'bit by bit' with his pet dog.
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Detectives found parts of tragic Soledad's remains in Tupperware containers in their fridge and bones in drawers around the family home, an apartment near the Spanish capital's famous Las Ventas bullring.
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Her head, hands, and heart were found on her bed with local reports disclosing at the time that her body had been cut up into more than 1,000 tiny pieces.
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Officers who got him to open the door of the apartment they shared are said to have received the response: 'Yes, my mother is in here, dead.'
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The alarm was raised by a worried friend of Soledad's who told the authorities she hadn't seen her for a month.
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A prosecution indictment submitted to the court ahead of the trial revealed that the cannibal killer used a carpenter's saw and two kitchen knives to cut up his mum's body.
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Sanchez, whose dad died when he was 15, claimed in court at the start of his murder trial he had heard 'hidden messages' when he watched TV and voices telling him: 'Kill your mum.'
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He reportedly told Madrid's Audiencia Provincial court that the voices were those of neighbours, acquaintances, and celebrities. But he insisted he didn't remember cutting up his mum or eating her remains as he told police when they went to the murder scene.
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During a final address to the court last Friday he insisted: 'I'm very repentant. I suffer anxiety from the moment I wake up.
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'I think of my mum and I'm absolutely heartbroken.'
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Jurors heard the convicted killer, who regularly consumed drugs and alcohol, had been arrested 12 times for mistreating his mum before killing her.
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A police officer who gave evidence during the trial said: 'He began to tell us as he was being transferred to a police station that he had strangled her from behind.
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'He also said he had eaten parts of her body, some cooked and some raw, and had given some pieces to the dog.'
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— Faith Ukanwa