An illegal immigrant murdered his pregnant girlfriend before writing ‘die b***h’ above her head after she told him to leave their home, a court heard yesterday.
Violent Sergio Novarette, 27, originally from Mexico, battered Sarah O’Neill when she demanded he was gone by the morning after their relationship broke down.
His visa had run out and he was in the country illegally.
When Sarah told him it was over he beat, strangled and raped her.
Mother-of-one Sarah, 22, suffered serious head injuries, including fractures to her jaw and eye sockets and was left sprawled in a pool of her own blood.
She was found on the bed of the flat the couple shared in Speedwell, Bristol, with the words 'morir perra' - die b***h in Spanish - written above her.
Yesterday, Novarette was jailed for 26 years after pleading guilty to the murder which happened on January 8.
Mr Justice Blake dubbed the killer an 'obsessive, jealous and violent' at Bristol Crown Court.
He said: 'You remained in the premises and behaved in an obsessive, jealous, violent and obstructive manner, even though you know Miss O’Neill wanted you to leave.
'You exploited her generosity and hospitality and horribly used it and affection against her.
'The evil language you used and the words you scrawled on the bedside above her broken and battered body are a testament to you behaviour at the time.'
'The defendant accepted it was his writing, he had clearly written it that night.'
Hours after the horrific attack, drunken Novarette rang a friend to tell him he had 'gone too far' and crossed the line' before calling police to confess his crime.
When officers arrived he told them 'I choked her' and later asked, 'how long do you get for murder? when he arrived at the station.
Richard Smith QC, defending, said his client had a serious problem with alcohol and had drunk a 'huge amount even by his own standards of drinking' on the night of the murder.
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