Twenty-eight-year-old Alberto Sanchez Gomez will serve 15 years and five months for the gruesome murder of his mother in Madrid.
Spanish PolicePolice collar Alberto Sanchez Gomez for killing and eating his own female parent .
The Madrid vicinity of Las Ventas is best experience for its famous bullfighting ring . But its cheery , picturesque streets obliterate something horrible — a cannibal . A local man was just convict of belt down and eating his own female parent .
The so - call Cannibal of Las Ventas , Alberto Sánchez Gómez , bolt down his mother , María Soledad Gómez , in former 2019.According to the Madrid prosecutor ’s position , the unemployed waiter strangled her from behind after an argument .
Spanish PolicePolice arrest Alberto Sanchez Gomez for killing and eating his own mother.
Although Sánchez , 28 , later argued in court that he was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time of the slaying , jurors decided that his subsequent actions shew cold system of logic .
Alberto Sánchez GómezAlberto Sánchez Gómez , in an undated selfie .
After his female parent was dead , Sánchez went and baffle a carpenter ’s sawing machine and two kitchen knives . cautiously , he cut down up his female parent ’s body into 1,000 pieces . Some pieces he stored in Tupperware containers . Others , he left around the sign or threw into the trash . Police later discover his mother ’s head , helping hand , and heart on her bed .
Alberto Sánchez GómezAlberto Sánchez Gómez, in an undated selfie.
Over the next 15 days , Sánchez wipe out the cadaver . Sometimes , he make the pulp . Other fourth dimension , he ate it raw . He consume his female parent , allot to Spanish newspaperEl Pais , to “ try on and make it go away . ”
Meanwhile , his mother ’s friends had get down to worry . They had n’t seen María Soledad Gómez for over a month . So , in February 2019 , police came to her flat after an alarmed friend notified them of her absence .
The law knew about Sánchez — and his mother . Sánchez had been hold 12 clock time for mistreating her and for breaching restraining ordering . But they were still shock by the grisly scene in the apartment .
FacebookAlberto Sánchez Gómez and his dog — to whom he allegedly fed parts of his mother.
Police base pieces of María Soledad Gómez in Tupperware in the fridge , tuck into drawers , and scattered around the sign of the zodiac . And Sánchez quickly confess to his shocking criminal offence .
At his tribulation , which start in April 2021 , a police officer testified that Sánchez came neat almost immediately .
“ [ Sánchez ] began to tell us as he was being transferred to a police post that he had strangle [ his female parent ] from behind , ” the ship’s officer say .
“ He also said he had eat parts of her organic structure , some cooked and some raw , and had given some pieces to the dog-iron . ”
FacebookAlberto Sánchez Gómez and his dog — to whom he allegedly fed part of his mother .
But Sánchez has argued that he was n’t mentally level-headed at the fourth dimension of his female parent ’s execution . In his telling , he had protrude hearing voices while watch telly . These voices instructed him to “ kill your mum ” and suggest he dismember her organic structure .
Sánchez claims that the voices sound like neighbors , acquaintance , and celebrity . He insist that he has no memory of the murder — or how he ate her remains for two calendar week .
In fact , Sánchez does have a foresighted chronicle of genial malady . His sidekick testified that Sánchez had several psychotic episodes in 2015 after he started doing drugs . And he was let in three time to La Princesa Hospital in Madrid .
“ I ’m very penitent , ” Sánchez told the court on the last twenty-four hours of his test . “ I suffer anxiety from the moment I wake up .
“ I reckon of my mum and I ’m perfectly heartsick . ”
Despite his last plea , the judicature reject Sánchez ’s tilt that he was “ psychologically disturbed . ” After hearing from psychologist that testified that Sánchez can separate what is “ correct and untimely , he just does n’t care ” the jurors found him shamed .
As a result , Sánchez was doom to 15 eld in prison for the gruesome execution . He will also have to serve an additional five calendar month for the desecration of a stiff and pay his brother $ 73,000 in recompense .
However , Sánchez and his legal team will appeal the sentence . Their next step is to bring the subject to the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid to argue that Sánchez was n’t of a sound mind when he stamp out his mother — which would reduce his sentence by three years and six month .
Whether or not Sánchez ’s prayer is successful , it seems that he will take the air free again in 15 years — when he ’s 43 years old . By then , perhaps Las Ventas will once again be known for bullfighting , and not as the home of a cannibal murderer .
After reading about the Cannibal of Las Ventas , take about two other notorious cannibals : aRussian cannibal couplethat bolt down and use up 30 people andNathanial Bar - Jonah , the child murderer who may have make his victims .
