By PAUL ANDERSON

SANTA ANA – A 35-year-old man was convicted Tuesday of strangling and beating a woman with a tow hitch in his pickup truck when she refused to spend more time with him following a sex act in Anaheim.

Abdulaziz Munther Alubidy, who is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12, was convicted of first-degree with murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon. Alubidy was convicted of killing 56-year-old Jessie Villesca on July 30, 2020.

“A little more than five years ago Jessie Villesca made a choice,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Jeff Moore said in his opening statement of the trial. “She made a choice to get into the truck driven by the defendant who beat and brutally strangled her to death. And why? Because she basically said no to him. She hur

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