The “Cannibal of Sales”: a young Spaniard was sentenced to prison after eating his mother

A young spanish he was sentenced to 15 years and five months in prison for strangling his mother, whom he then chopped with “a saw and two knives”, and eventually ate some of the parts. In its sentence, the court of Madrid which tried “the cannibal of Ventas” established that he was in possession of “your mental faculties at the time of the events“.

The sentence was pronounced Tuesday but the macabre event occurred in early 2019, when Alberto SG, after an argument with his mother (69), with whom he lived, strangled her. He then dragged the corpse to his room where he cut it up using “a carpenter’s saw and two kitchen knives”, according to the prosecution, which also established that it was “in order to make his body disappear”.

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“After the body was cut up, the accused occasionally fed on the remains of the body for about 15 days, keeping the other remains in various plastic containers around the house and inside the refrigerator.“, Added the prosecution. He also put some leftovers in plastic bags and threw them in the trash.

The home of the murderer and his mother is located near Madrid’s famous bullring. A friend who noticed the victim’s absence reported the disappearance of the woman, for which on February 23, 2019, they arrested the cannibal, a young man with a drug problem.

On the day of his arrest, when the police asked him at the door if his mother was inside, he said yes and let them through. “What we find is a dantesque scene,” said a policeman to the channel Telecinco.

During the trial, one of the police officers called to testify assured that Alberto SG, said “the cannibal of Sales” through the neighborhood of Madrid where the crime took place, admitted to having eaten leftovers of his mother, some raw and others cooked, and having given some to the dog, according to the local press.

Alberto SG received a 15-year prison sentence for a crime of homicide with aggravating circumstance of kinship, and five additional months for another crime of desecration of corpses. He will also have to pay his brother compensation of 60,000 euros.

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