NEW YORK (AP) — A Portuguese model was sentenced Friday to the maximum 25 years to life in prison in the grisly castration killing of a TV personality in a New York City hotel room.

Renato Seabra, 23, was convicted last month of the 2011 murder of Carlos Castro, who was choked, bludgeoned and mutilated. Seabra had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and his defense team said he was mentally ill. On Friday, Seabra asked for forgiveness from Castro’s family and said through an interpreter that he didn’t know what got into him the day of the killing.