South American ‘stabbed flatmate in alleyway’
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A drunken Bolivian stabbed his flatmate in the heart in an alleyway because he thought he was being mocked, a court heard.
Alvaro Mendoza Sillerico, 26, had been drinking with his friend Danny Cepeda – who was known as ‘The Scratched One’ after a girlfriend clawed his face – at a flat in Camberwell when Mendoza became enraged and headbutted Cepeda, a jury was told.
Mendoza stormed out of the flat on 28 January this year and boarded the No12 Bus from Camberwell to Peckham where he lived with eight other men.
CCTV captured him leaving Camberwell and boarding the bus where he wipes blood from his head onto a handrail, jurors heard.
Getting off and entering 179A Rye Lane, Peckham, he was heard by a neighbour arguing with Juan Olmos-Saca, 39, in the early hours of the next morning, the Old Bailey heard.
Flatmates Calix Sanchez-Flores and Manuel Carenas then found Mr Olmos-Saca slumped in an alleyway with blood oozing out of a stab wound to his upper-left chest.
He was rushed to Kings College Hospital with a 28mm stab wound which had snapped a rib and pierced both ventricles.
Despite battling against all the odds hospital staff kept Mr Olmos-Saca alive until 2 February, when he collapsed from his wounds and died.
Prosecuting, Jacob Hallam QC said: ‘As far as the defendant is concerned he spent at least some of the evening with a friend who is a man called Danny Cepeda, now Mr Cepeda is also of Latin American extraction.
‘The defendant sometimes called Mr Cepeda “The Scratched One” because there had been a point when the friend had been scratched on the face by his girlfriend.’
Two of the eight men who lived at the Peckham address were out that evening.
Police described the flat as ‘small, living literally in some cases on top of each other.’
Mendoza’s neighbour Patricio Taco Taco heard two voices ‘arguing heatedly’ outside 179A, jurors were told.
At around 1am Mendoza’s roommates Calix Sanchez-Flores and Manuel Carenas were woken up by Mendoza, the Old Bailey heard.
‘They said that he had got some blood on his face – he grabs something and then he left the room and then he returned a little while later,’ said the prosecutor.
‘He said to them firstly, as he described it, “the Peruvian was after him” and wanted to kill him, and secondly, that the Bolivian needed help.’
Mendoza said he had an argument with Danny Cepeda and been stabbed by him, the court was told.
‘The defendant said that the fight had been about a girl,’ said Mr Hallam.
‘He said to his roommates that he had got some cuts to his stomach.
‘The defendant told them that Mr Olmos Saca had made fun of him even though he had been hurt.’
Rushing down the stairs Mr Sanchez-Flores and Mr Carenas found Mr Olmos Saca in his own blood with it sprayed all over the walls.
They called the police who found Mendoza in his bunkbed smelling of alcohol, the Old Bailey heard.
Mendoza, of Rye Lane, south east London, denies murder.
The trial continues
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