A court in Madrid has sentenced a man to prison for killing his mother in the apartment the two shared.
CNN reports that Alberto, 28, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for murder and five months for desecration of a corpse. He was also ordered to pay his brother 60,000 euros in compensation, which is about $73,000.
The court rejected Alberto’s claim that he suffered a psychotic break at the time of the killing. According to the New York Post, he told the court in April that he heard voices telling him to harm his mother, Maria, 68, while the two watched television together in 2019.
The Madrid prosecutor’s office told the outlet that Alberto strangled Maria after an argument. Authorities reportedly found some of her remains after she had not been seen for about a month. Prosecutors said the desecration of her body took place over roughly two weeks inside the apartment.
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