Stabbed to death ‘for talking to killer’s girlfriend’

A girlfriend sobbed as she told a court how she heard her lodger begging for mercy before watching her ‘possessive’ lover stab him to death for daring to talk to her to her. Carlos Rueda Velez, 20, allegedly left fellow Spaniard David Martinez, 26, to bleed to death in a shared flat in North Birkbeck Road, Leyton, east London last 6 March. Velez allegedly suspected the victim had kissed his girlfriend Ashlly Rondon-Diaz and slapped her in the face after…