23 Jan, 2018 @ 10:28
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Man in Spain admits killing his sister with an iron in her Costa del Sol home for ‘calling him lazy’

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MURDER WEAPON: Iron

A MAN has admitted killing his sister while she slept in her Costa del Sol home. 

The unnamed defendant acknowledged the charges against him in front of a jury in Malaga yesterday, saying his sibling ‘made his life bitter’ and ‘called him lazy’.

The accused’s sister was beaten on the head with an iron before being strangled with its cord.

The prosecutor’s office are seeking 21 years and eight months in prison for murder.

Following an argument in October 2016, the accused, who lived in Morocco, could not sleep.

He told the jury how could not get his sister’s ‘cutting words’ out of his head.

TRAGIC: Sister lived in Torremolinos

The mother-of-two, according to the defendant, repeatedly told him he was a ‘waste of space’ and that he never took advantage of opportunities.

“She never helped you, she only put you down,” the defendant told the court.

So at 3.00am, he entered her room and bashed her head in with an iron before wrapping the cord around her neck and strangling her to death.

“I am very sorry,” he added, “I know I have hurt my whole family.”

The defense are seeking a nine-year manslaughter sentence, arguing the man had suffered years of abuse.

The trial continues.

 

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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