34 year old man who killed his mother in the bar she owned in Santomera last year and then carried her decapitated head around the town under his arm.

Trial was due to start at the Murcia provincial court this Thursday of a 34 year old man who killed his mother in the bar she owned in Santomera last year and then carried her decapitated head around the town under his arm.It happened on 15th April 2008 when Ángelo C. stabbed his 56 year old mother, T.M., four times in the abdomen, cut off her head and carried it around town wrapped in a bloody rag until he was arrested by police.It was revealed after the killing that the mother had been on Spanish television before she died saying she was terrified of her son because of his precarious mental state and that her life was in danger. It later emerged that he had been arrested on four occasions for domestic violence and twice spent time in prison for beating his mother.The prosecutor is applying for a 20-year sentence in a psychiatric centre at the accused’s trial by jury.