A brute has been given 30 years in jail for butchering a young woman and stashing her body parts in a suitcase and a fridge.
Michael Saba was sentenced yesterday (28 Jan) after being found guilty of the murder of Yenny Carolina Pérez Canelón.
Saba committed the crime in the early hours of 21 December 2023 in a flat he’d rented in someone else’s name.
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The autopsy found a gunshot wound to Pérez’s heart.
When police arrived at the flat in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, they found her head and part of her thighs in the fridge.
Her feet were found in a bag and her torso in a suitcase.
Three knives, an unlicensed pistol with a silencer, pink cocaine, diazepam, handcuffs, and rope were seized from the apartment.
Saba, who is described in reports as “Italian-Colombian”, took a taxi to the flat the night before the crime.
He was seen getting out with several bags and taking in a suitcase with the driver’s help.
Nearly half an hour later, Pérez arrived in another taxi.
When her driver arrived later on to pick her up, the two exchanged messages.
At one point, Pérez told him she was on her way down, but she later texted to say: “I’m not coming down.”
A short while later, the 27-year-old Venezuelan stopped replying, so the worried driver contacted her sister.
Yeisy Carolina Quinto Canelón then called Saba, who told her that Pérez had never turned up.
This set off alarm bells, so Quinto went to the block of flats with the police.
As they entered the building, they came face to face with Saba as he was leaving.
Quinto asked him about her sister and he told her that she had already left.
He then made off on a motorbike waiting for him outside before the police could question him.
Quinto and the police then entered the blood-stained apartment and made the grim find.
Saba was caught the next day and was remanded into custody, as reported by Need To Know.
During his trial, he protested his innocence and tried to pin the blame on his getaway rider.
In addition to his prison sentence, he was ordered to compensate Quinto to the tune of 5m DOP (£65,354).
A report from 2023 tells how Saba had tried to take Pérez’s car in September that year, prompting her to distance herself from him.
Her sister believed at the time that this may have been the motive for the crime.
Saba’s lawyers have said they will appeal the ruling.
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