Man admits killing his boyfriend in Calpe, but says he was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol

A man accused of killing his boyfriend during a sexual game has told the Provincial Court in Alicante today, Monday, that he ‘was not conscious’ of what he had done as he was under the effects of cocaine and alcohol which he had taken previously. In the first session of the court case the chamber heard how the accused said that in the early hours of July 3 2010, at a flat in Jávea, both he and the victim were repeatedly drinking alcohol and taking cocaine. He said that there had been no arguments on the day, and so he could not explain why later in the early hours he stabbed his friend to death and then threw the knife onto the roof of the home. Before that he used a dressing gown cord to tie up the victim’s hands and then blindfolded him with a shirt. The accused told the court that his friend had fallen asleep, still tied up and blindfolded, and he then decided to kill him so he went to the kitchen for a knife and stabbed him in the heart. The victim then turned over in agony, and was then stabbed in the back. The aggressor then took a shower, threw the knife on the roof, and walked to the San Antonio Cape with the supposed intention of committing suicide in the sea. However at 9,30am he called a friend and told him what had happened, and the friend called the Guardia Civil. His defence lawyer says that the facts constitute the crime of homicide, but he claiming temporary insanity as his own will had been annulled by the addiction to the drugs. The man has a long psychiatric history and has seen several attempts at suicide, a personality which has seen him attend several specialist centres already. The prosecutor however notes they consider the accused had his intellectual faculties intact at the time of the attack, and therefore considers it is a crime of assassination. He is demanding an 18 year prison sentence, and compensation of 90,000 € for each of the victim’s parents, and 45,000 for his brothers in concept of moral damages.