Deyan Valentinov
is the name of the homeless killer

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor...an_In_Tenerife

two video reports

I have to say I turned it over earlier as my 7 year old was listening. I usually don't mind her watching the news with me but a decapitation is nightmare stuff!

Photo of the woman has been released now:

Oh god! You're right Jordan.. it does seem even worse now! Poor woman :sad:

That's horrific! The man must have a very disturbed mind, He'll probably and hopefully get a life sentence for this.

It does make me wonder about the supermarket though, the knife was from there but you can't decapitate someone with just an ordinary knife, at least not quickly. It must have been something machete-esque. I hope that this shakes them into being more careful with how they keep knives and such.

Spoilered it just incase anyone would rather not see. :/

I just have no words, that poor, poor woman. What the hell is this earth coming to?! You couldn't even begin to imagine that happening this day in age or ever. It's like something out of a horror film. I honestly thought when I saw a link to it on Facebook that it was those fake scam sites that try and draw you in until I saw the news.

Just awful!

Link to news item from the Guardian online
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Woman beheaded in Tenerife had sought aid before attack

Jennifer Mills-Westley the British woman killed in a supermarket in Tenerife had complained of harassment

The British woman beheaded in a supermarket on the Spanish island of Tenerife was named as it emerged that she had complained of being harassed moments before she was attacked. Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, from Norwich, was killed on Friday in a frenzied and unprovoked knife attack in the town of Arona, part of the Los Cristianos beach resort.

Her daughter Sarah said: "Mum retired a number of years ago and was fully enjoying her retirement travelling between Tenerife and France where she spent time visiting her daughter and grandchildren, and her other daughter in Norfolk. She was full of life, generous of heart, would do anything for anyone. We now have to find a way of living without her love and light and we would ask at this difficult time for some privacy as we try to come to terms with our loss."

Spanish police identified the alleged killer as Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, 28, an unemployed Bulgarian.

The attack began in a supermarket. Witnesses say the assailant grabbed a knife from inside a shop and stabbed the dead woman at least 14 times. He then decapitated her, carrying the severed head out into the street claiming to be "a prophet from God".

Local media reported that he left the supermarket shouting: "I am God's avenger and I come to mete out justice."

It was initially believed the murder was a random incident. But a report on a British expat website said that Mills-Westley had reported Deyanov to a guard at the town's social security office for threatening behaviour.

Deyanov ranted at the security guard and was moved on. Several minutes later Mills-Westley left the office and entered the supermarket, which was next door. Minutes later the attack took place and the same security guard, named locally as Juan Antonio Hernandez Delgado, heard the commotion and chased the killer down the street before wrestling him to the ground.

Further reports gave an impression of a disturbed individual. Locals said Deyanov had been known for threatening and often violent behaviour, once having punched a local shipowner who refused to tell him the time, smashing his teeth. Jose Alberto Gonzalez Reveron, mayor of Arona, said video footage "showed the man became enraged" inside the store.

Christina Perez, a legal representative at a nearby court, said a group of lawyers had seen the man leave the shop. "They saw the man running out of the supermarket with the head in his hands. A security man from the complex ran after him and jumped on to him so he fell, and then he threw the head on to the road."

Mills-Westley's former employer, Norfolk county council, offered its condolences, praising her work teaching road safety to youngsters.

"Our deepest sympathies go to Jenny's family and friends following this terrible news," the authority said in a statement. "Jenny was a popular and well respected member of staff, who during her time with Norfolk county council worked as a road safety officer working with many schools and children to teach cycling safety training."

The Foreign Office has confirmed that consular officials are liaising with the authorities in Los Cristianos, which is home to a large British expat community.

Apparently he was screaming he was 'God's Prophet' and then he hacked her head off, and ran down the street yelling, 'It was his treasure'.

Loony bastard

Doubt it.

It probably happened too fast to get a picture though - I mean I doubt anyone is going to go on Holiday to there and be like 'Right love, get the camera ready incase a hobo runs down the road with a head in his hands!'.

No one was suggesting that, idiot.

But, no, I wouldn't think there'd be pictures.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...85_306x423.jpg

62 year old Tragedy: Mother-of-two Jennifer Mills-Westley who was decapitated
in the Tenerife supermarket

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1MQjetJhI

This story has really disturbed me, I think it's horrible.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...99_634x421.jpg

This was the place the homeless Killer stayed.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...03_634x507.jpg

Amazing
Business as usual: The shop where a British woman was stabbed to death and beheaded was trading again yesterday less than 24 hours after the killing

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1MRXxAVO0



Sign Of The Times

Yes its Tragic
but at least the Evil Killer is Locked Up.

He should be executed.

For now. He was locked up remember, and then released - and this was the result.

i seen a like on Facebook about this:

A women got decapitated in Tenerife, guess i wont "beheading" there any time soon!

Prices slashed!

Released?



You having a Laugh
this is such a Evil Crime
the spanish will never let him out.

Yes
maybe in Jail someone will Kill him,
he would be a great prisoner to do that.

You're awful. :hugesmile:

Yes. Released. 'allegedly'.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1MSAjx1SW

there's a big difference between knocking somebodies tooth out and chopping their head off in a supermarket

he aint going nowhere

Attacking a random stranger and knocking TEETH (plural) out - is not the action of a man who is sane or harmless.

His latest action was nothing more than a step up for him, I'd bet my last £1 that if he'd not beheaded this poor woman, he'd have done something far worse than what he'd previously did.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...77_634x598.jpg
The Evil Killer on camera:
Deyan Valentinov Deyanov pictured in a local supermarket just before the attack


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1MUkxjqU7


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...94_306x423.jpg
Deyanov back in the better days when he was a salesman

"Like many of his countrymen, Deyanov is thought to have travelled
to Tenerife after Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007.
He found work handing out cards to advertise a timeshare scheme
and rented a flat in Los Cristianos.
Following a crackdown on timeshare salesmen,
he struggled for money working as a tout for
beachfront restaurants and bars.
It was then that he descended into mental illness and drug addiction
which left him homeless and increasingly aggressive."


He should have left and gone home to bulgaria
as soon as he had no work.

I find this story awful, gruesome and very disturbing,however,'Conor I have to admit I did raise a few smiles at your comment above.

I was out there at the time, saw it on a news channel, bit odd to know it happened just down the road.

He was known to the authorities apparently. Shame she had to fall victim to people not properly assessing his mental health

Ok, berate me for the following if you wish, I expect it, but .....

........ Deyan Valentinov being depicted as an evil killer seems wrongly worded. Yes, what he carried out was totally horrific. If I was a member of that poor woman's family or a friend, I would have nothing but loathing for that man who carried out that crime. But looking at it from the perspective of a reader of that awful news item, the man was mentally ill and in need of strict supervision, not to be allowed on the streets where he was known to be a pest, a ticking timebomb waiting for that fuse to be lit, he was probably not even taking any prescribed meds for all we know. He wasn't an evil calculating killer as far as we know, he is mentally ill, the blame for what happened should for the most part lay with the authorities that saw fit to release him into society again and the laws themselves which need tightening up. The tragedy should never have happened in the first place :(

This makes me so mad, WHY D:

"he is mentally ill"


Sure but he did a Evil Killing.
The fact he is crazy does not mean he can not be Evil

On Ch4News tonight
they found out he was sectioned in Wales.
And he said he would go back home in Bulgaria

I agree, good post

No, but does it mean he's Evil because of his ill mental state?

It's definitely no excuse for what he's done but if he's mentally deranged then it's the authorities that should hang their heads in shame for what happened to that poor woman.

He should have been properly detained.

Even if it was a child rapist?

No they are in another section of the Jail,
so that would not happen.

False.:nono: