'House of drugs and sex': the Edinburgh flat where Tenerife murder accused lived

TENERIFE murder accused Deyan Deyanov spent hours smoking drugs and weeping about his lack of friends in a tiny, chaotic Edinburgh flat.

The 28-year-old killer of British grandmother Jennifer Mills-Westley also boasted to his flatmate about being a playboy and using women for sex.

Slovakian Vlad Chmurny, 36, who lived with Deyanov in a first-floor tenement in Leith, for 18 months, said his flatmate left on days he was working as a labourer by 6:30am, returning mid-afternoon.

He said: "When he wasn't working, there was a Scottish woman and a Scottish man who visited with a small girl of about five or six.

"They were smoking hashish in the room and I watched cartoons with the little girl. After two or three hours they were out of it on drugs. They would shout and swear at each other.

"I'd open the door and there would be smoke in the air so I'd open the window but Deyan would close it again and said, "what are you doing? I don't want trouble."

Mr Chmurny added: "Sometimes he cried. He complained he was all alone and nobody liked him. He spent all his money on drugs and chocolate."

Mr Chmurny suggested Deyanov was a fantasist who boasted about having a wealthy family and a string of women. "He said he had lots of girlfriends. He said, 'I look like a playboy, woman want me'.

"He only had one girlfriend, a Scottish girlfriend. He said it was only for sex. She was here all the time. I think she loved him. He didn't love her." Deyanov, a Bulgarian, has been charged with the murder and decapitation last Friday of Mrs Mills-Westley, 60, originally from Norfolk but who has retired to the Canary Island resort.

It has emerged that the 28-year-old was working as a labourer in Edinburgh as recently as a year ago.