A 35-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison for 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 was convicted Oct. 14 of first-degree 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.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Jeff Moore said in a sentencing brief that Alubidy committed a murder that was “cruel, callous and involved great violence. Defendant strangled and brutally beat Jesse Villesca with a trailer hitch ball mount. Ms. Villesca suffered debilitating injuries and died a horrific death. The viciousness of the murder is enhanced by the fact that defendant ripped one of Ms. Villesca’s eyeballs out of the socket, fully dislodging the eyeball which was located on the rear floorboard of the truck.”

Moore said, “This was a senseless crime. Defendant simply became angry because he didn’t get his way and took out his frustration out on Ms. Villesca in an incredibly violent fashion.”

In his opening statement of the trial, Moore said the defendant killed her because she “hurt his feelings.”

Villesca was struggling with substance abuse and turning to prostitution at the time, Moore said.

Alubidy was in the habit of parking his Toyota Tundra around 540 N. Magnolia Ave., where he knew Villesca worked as a prostitute, Moore said.

“He was watching porn on his phone” when he “called her over and propositioned her,” Moore said.

“They agreed to $20” for a sex act, Moore said, and drove to a more remote spot in an industrial area at Brookhurst Street and Crescent Avenue.

Villesca’s request for more money infuriated Alubidy, who felt she was “rushing him,” and rejected his desire for her “to stay longer” with him, Moore said.

“This refusal, this rejection is what set him off,” Moore said.

Villesca attempted to bail out of the truck, but he pulled her back in, prompting her then to “beg for her life,” Moore said.

Villesca said she would do anything he wanted, “But he wasn’t having that,” Moore said.

Alubidy grabbed a trailer tow hitch and bludgeoned the 5-foot-tall, 130-pound victim.

“She fought back, scratched him, but he killed her in the back of that truck,” Moore said. “He overwhelmed her.”

Alubidy bound Villesca with blue painters tape and headed south on the Santa Ana (5) Freeway, continuing to beat her with the tow hitch when he thought she was still alive, according to the prosecutor.

Alubidy exited the freeway in the San Marcos area of San Diego County, where his erratic driving led to a crash, authorities said. With his truck disabled, Alubidy ran away.

A San Diego County sheriff’s deputy found Alubidy about a quarter-mile away, Moore said. He had to be subdued with a Taser, Moore added.

Another sheriff’s deputy who responded to the collision spotted blood seeping from the truck, leading to the discovery of the victim’s body, Moore said.

The defendant has 1,961 days credit behind bars while awaiting sentencing.