The truth behind the hideous discovery this week of a decomposed body in a plastic bag near a Porto guesthouse has now emerged.
The 54-year-old man was a tenant in the ‘pensão’. According to a horrific report in today’s Correio da Manhã, he owed rent on his third floor room, and this is why he was stabbed to death.
The man, reported to have no family and a history of drug-trafficking, was then bundled into the black plastic bag, bound in tape, and dragged to a nearby annexe where his body remained, steadily rotting, for “at least six months”.
Apart from the fact that the area smelt very bad, the body may not have been found but for the desire of two tenants living in the building to take over the 3rd floor room, which was bigger, said CM, than the room they were living in on the floor below.
The landlord is reported to have told them to ignore the annexe, as a cat had died in there – but curiosity got the better of them, and it was then that they made their macabre discovery.
The owner of the guesthouse – described as a “difficult man” – is now in police custody and due to appear before Porto’s criminal court charged with qualified homicide.
CM’s report suggests he killed his former tenant because the man owed rent. Indeed that was the reason reportedly given to police when the landlord is understood to have volunteered his confession.
