On social networks he referred to as himself ‘the tattoo butcher’, and the reality is that Leonardo’s occasions have proven that the nickname suited him like a glove. On October 15, 2019, he acquired an 18-year-old consumer to whom he had made a tattoo at his home in Valdemoro (Madrid). After killing her with a knife in her stomach, he launched her into her bathtub, he grabbed a scalpel and reduce the areolas from her breasts. In addition, she engraved a “Y” between her navel and her clavicles.
This Tuesday, Leonardo will depart jail the place he has spent seven years to take a seat on the bench. From there he’ll hear how the Prosecutor’s Office requests 25 years and 5 months in jail for him.
The ‘tattoo butcher’ is the one defendant on this case, though at first the position of his sentimental companion was complicated. According to the Colombian press, she helped him within the ritual after the homicide. But she was additionally the one who photographed the crime scene and the subsequent day she referred to as the police reporting her companion.
The black chronicle about this Colombian man assures that in his home, the place he lived along with his companion, he treasured Hannibal Lecter masks, posters that allegoried Nazism, and sharp and firearms.
The torture of his sufferer, earlier than and after loss of life
The Prosecutor’s account explains that on the night time of October 15, 2019, Leonardo acquired an 18-year-old consumer at dwelling, whom he knew for having beforehand tattooed her and to whom he additionally provided non-prescription remedy.
Once on the home, in keeping with investigators, the younger girl consumed a number of beers and took drugs of a drugs referred to as Rivotril. That occurred in the principle bed room, positioned on the primary flooring.
Between two and three within the morning, along with her in a state of drowsiness “because of the consumption of gear”, the assassin stood behind the younger girl and tried to drown her by inserting his arm across the lady’s neck.
Since he didn’t obtain his goal, he then tried with a cable, however neither “due to his lack of ability to sufficiently squeeze the sufferer’s neck.”
So he seemed for an additional option to kill her that did work: he plunged a knife into her stomach whereas persevering with to choke her with the cable held with one hand. The younger girl died immediately by the hands of her alleged assassin.
Not joyful, and residing as much as his nickname, the butcher moved the physique to the toilet, put her within the bathtub “and there, utilizing a scalpel, he reduce the areolas of the sufferer’s breasts and made an incision from the navel within the form of a “Y” in the direction of every of the 2 clavicles, emulating a sheet of his property the place there’s a girl with the identical tattoos that he had.
Once the physique was completed, the defendant reduce out the younger girl’s face and the 2 tattoos that he himself had made months earlier than. They have been a dagger and a rose that he positioned in brine after the crime to “preserve them as trophies.”
The Public Ministry prices him with the crimes of homicide and desecration of a corpse, on which a preferred jury will determine.
Two murders with mutilation in two days in Madrid
It so occurs that it’s the second trial for homicide with mutilation that this week is being held on the Provincial Court of Madrid. On Monday the trial started for an additional alleged assassin who killed his father as a result of he had not acquired a name from his mom.
In that case, after killing the daddy, the defendant amputated his fingers and an ear with the assistance of pruning shears, an ax and a knife.
Of course, for the parricide, the Prosecutor’s Office requested a a lot lesser sentence, 9 and a half years, as a result of he has been identified with a psychotic dysfunction resulting from his drug dependancy.