Man used hammer to kill brother

A MAN has been jailed for 10 years in Palma for brutally murdering his younger brother, dismembering his body with an axe and then storing him in a freezer.

Thursday morning saw the sentence passed down on Galeote Diego Antonio Rosselló, who is a teacher in a local school.

The incident occurred on September 11 last year at the house they shared in  Llobera Pere Street, which is situated in the neighbourhood of Pere Garau near the market in Palma.

The defendant attacked his brother Victor (aged 32) with a hammer several times to the head causing his death. He then went on to dismember the body with an axe before heading off at 7pm to buy a freezer to store his brother’s remains in.

He realised shortly after that his brothers remains could not entirely fit in the freezer so he placed the rest in his fridge.

The incident occurred after yet another argument between the brothers who were constantly fighting with each other.

The defendant claimed that his brother was intolerable to live with and that combined with the fact he had his daughter stay with them every other weekend added extra pressure and strain to their relationship. He waited a full 19 days with his brother’s remains in the freezer and fridge before handing himself in to the Police headquarters in Palma, telling them he had killed his brother and saved his remains in a freezer in the house.

The parents of the accused and victim refused to comment but they did reserve their right to renounce both civil and a criminal action to which they are entitled to pursue.

The man accepted his sentence for manslaughter with a final sentence of 10 years as he confessed to the crimes.

Police later went on to discover that the man had carried out several searches on the internet on various stages of the decomposition of a corpse.