An unemployed Spanish waiter is on trial for allegedly chopping his mother into 1,000 pieces, keeping them in lunch boxes and eating them – with the help of his little dog, according to a report.
Alberto Sánchez Gómez, 28, who was arrested in February 2019, admitted in court on Wednesday that he heard voices telling him to kill his mother, Maria Soledad Gómez, 68, while watching TV in their Madrid apartment, The Sun reported. .
He said the voices were those of neighbors, acquaintances, and celebrities, according to the outlet, but insisted he didn’t remember slicing up his mother or eating her.
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When officers investigating a friend’s report on the missing woman came to his door, he reportedly told them, “Yes, my mother is in here – dead.”
“Me and the dog ate her little by little,” he told police.
Investigators said they found parts of Soledad’s remains in Tupperware containers in their refrigerator and bones in drawers in the apartment near the capital’s famous Las Ventas arena.
Prosecutors accused the alleged cannibal of strangling his mother after an argument earlier that year, the report said.
“The suspect then transferred his mother’s body to the bedroom and placed it on the bed with the aim of making her body disappear. Before that, he cut her up with a carpenter’s saw and two kitchen knives,” the charges said.
Once he cut her body to pieces, he ate pieces from time to time for about two weeks, put part of her body in Tupperware containers around the apartment and in the refrigerator, and threw others in plastic. away. bags, ”it adds.
Sánchez Gómez, who is in prison for 15 years to life, has undergone a psychiatric examination, the results of which are expected to be outlined at trial.
Prosecutors also want him to pay an older brother $ 90,000 – about $ 108,000 – for the loss of his mother when he is found guilty of murder and desecrating a corpse.
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“I keep thinking about what happened. I had been sick for a long time and took refuge in drugs,” Sánchez Gómez wrote in a letter from prison, the Sun reported.
“I had been hearing voices for a long time and had hallucinations. All this led me to the worst that has happened in my life,” he added in the letter, which was published by local media.
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