A man has been found guilty in Tenerife of murdering a British grandmother, who he decapitated on the Spanish island.
Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov has been convicted of killing 60-year-old Jennifer Mills-Westley in 2011.
The homeless 29-year-old drug addict was found guilty by a jury of nine at the Provincial Court in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
He repeatedly stabbed and then beheaded Ms Mills-Westley, who had been shopping in the popular resort of Los Cristianos on May 13, 2011.
Deyanov had denied murder. His defence had argued he was not criminally responsible for his actions because he suffers from acute paranoid schizophrenia.
He faces a sentence of 15 to 20 years in a psychiatric unit.
Deyan Deyanov (right). Photo: Ramon de la Rocha/PA Wire Ms Mills-Westley, a retired road safety worker originally from Norwich, was attacked while she was in a Chinese-owned general store near the beach.
She had retired to the island to live in 2006 and owned two apartments in Los Cristianos, one of which she rented out.
That morning, Deyanov had walked into another shop and asked for a "big" knife because he was going to kill someone.
At 10.30am he went into the Mas Articulos Mejor Precios shop on Avenida Juan Carlos I, picked up a 22cm-long knife and plunged it into Ms Mills-Westley's neck 14 times.
He then walked out carrying her head, to the horror of onlookers, before being wrestled to the ground and arrested.
Living rough in Los Cristianos, the crack cocaine and LSD user was well-known to police on the island and had been arrested at least four times since January 2011 for violent offences.
A warrant for his arrest had been issued just three days before the killing but officers had been unable to locate him.
He had previously been sectioned in the summer of 2010 under the Mental Health Act in Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, and again at Tenerife's La Candelaria hospital before being bailed in early February 2011.
The jury found that Deyanov was guilty of murder because he took his victim by surprise and she could not defend herself.
Even though he was suffering schizophrenia and his responsibility was diminished, in Spanish law he is guilty of murder.
Wearing an olive green hoodie, black tracksuit trousers and running shoes, Deyanov remained quiet and still as the verdict was read out.
Asked by magistrate Maria Jesus Garcia Sanchez if he had anything he wanted to say, he told his Bulgarian interpreter: "I am the the second reincarnation of Jesus Christ and I will bring the fire of the Holy Spirit to bear against this court."
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