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‘World a better place’ says model after castrating sugar daddy with corkscrew

He was making a world “a better place” — by castrating his sugar daddy with a corkscrew.

“The world is a better place now,” lithe Portuguese underwear model Renato Seabra, 22, told officials as Portuguese fashion writer Carlos Castro, 65, lay bludgeoned and strangled to death in their Times Square hotel room in January, 2011, according to police testimony today in the horrific murder.

Seabra’s creepy confession was the topic of an extended pretrial hearing that ended with Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus deeming it fit for a jury to hear and setting Wednesday for jury selection.

Seabra has admitted turning on Castro as the two vacationing natives of Portugal argued in their room at the InterContinental hotel.

But he’s hoping to dodge a murder conviction and win an insanity verdict by convincing jurors that he was too crazy to know that anything he’d done to bring about Castro’s death was wrong — not bashing the older man on the head with the hotel room television and a wine bottle, or gouging out his testicles with a corkscrew as he lay unconscious on the carpeting.

His confession to the hour-long attack, detailed today in court, certainly sounds unhinged.

In it, Seabra rants that he’d castrated his victim to excise the “virus” of homosexuality, according to testimony by Manhattan South Det. Richard Tirelli.

“He said they were the demons, and he needed to cut it out,” the detective testified. “Cutting off his testicles — that would make everything in the world right.”

Seabra had agreed to go on a trip with the older, influential Castro — and admitted to cops that he loved the man — but also described telling Castro that he’d begun to “second guess” his homosexuality, the detective testified.

Castro had seemed to understand, and promised to cut their trip short. Seabra later became enraged in the hotel room when it seemed Castro had reneged on the promise, the detective testified.

“He states he was enraged and could not control the virus of the spread of homosexuality to the world,” he added.

Seabra told cops that Castro was on the floor gasping after being bludgeoned and choked when Seabra bashed him in the head with a wine bottle, the detective said. Then he reached for the corkscrew.

If Seabra convinces a jury he’s not responsible by reason of insanity, he’ll be sent indefinitely to a locked psych facility. If he fails to, he’ll serve a possible maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for murder.