The employee assures that she did not see “nothing strange” nor did she suspect that Isabel Suárez was poisoned. The judge decides this Friday if the actor and his wife enter prison
“María Isabel liked to live in her niece’s house because in her house in Asturias she felt lonely“. OPEN CASE has agreed to the full statement before the judge of the woman who took care of the aunt-in-law of louis lorenzo, Elizabeth Suarezduring his last month of life.
The actor and his partner, Aracha Palomino, now investigated for allegedly poisoning the 85-year-old woman to death, hired the Ecuadorian assistant on May 20, 2021 through a company dedicated to caring for the elderly. Then, according to the employee, the old woman was already sick: “the company told me that Isabel had parkinson’s. When I came to work at home, she could walk but holding her, she had difficulty eating and, as the days went by, she had difficulty even reaching the bathroom. Two or three weeks after I arrived, Isabel was already bedridden“.
“I was taken care of”
The woman affirms that the old woman was “at ease” at her niece’s house and Luis Lorenzo, assures that “from the beginning” he saw how Arancha “he spoke fondly” to the woman and that “She was desperate because her aunt was getting worse”.
He has clarified what he declared before the Civil Guard that the victim was neglected by the couple: “When I arrived, I noticed that the house was not adapted and there were no diapers, but then Isabel did not use them because she was independent (…). I spoke with the gentlemen that Isabel needed more help, a wheelchair, a shower… At no time did they deny me the purchase of whatever I neededI was taken care of.”
Medicines
According to the caregiver’s statement, it was Arancha who bought the medicines her aunt needed and who he “set the tone” for her to supply them. “I have no medical knowledge, but most older people take the same thing. The drugs came in packets, I gave him two or three at breakfast, two or three at lunch, and another two or three at night.”
The woman assures that she never saw “nothing strange” or had any “suspicion” that makes her think that the actor and his partner have poisoned the old woman. She, too, has no indication that the marriage was especially “interested” in Isabel’s money for anything other than “fixing the house, making reforms, buying a wheelchair…”.
To the notary, “very ill”
Although she acknowledges that they took the old woman twice to a notary in the Madrid neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo: “the second time Isabel was already in more trouble and the notary said that I didn’t understand what he was talking about and he saw that he had lost, that he spoke softly, so he said that he couldn’t do anything. Then they went to another notary in Arganda and they couldn’t do anything either because Isabel I was already very ill“.
Before the judge, the caregiver has provided details of the conversations she had with the victim: “The first days, Isabel talked a lot, she communicated well with me, she told me that she was very comfortable even with the children. She got along well with her niece and with Luis, there was good vibes between them. Sometimes I he spoke naturally of his own death and the burial that she wanted”.
According to her statement, “Isabel’s brother did not like that she was in Madrid. Sometimes she lied to him saying that she was somewhere else visiting other people.”
Judgment for another inheritance
OPEN CASE has also had access to the full statement of the old woman’s brother before the judge. The man has ratified his complaint to the Civil Guard, points to the actor and his wife as perpetrators of the crime to keep the victim’s estate and “steal” his money, more than 60,000 euros. He has explained that “There was already a trial about my mother’s inheritance” that is, Isabel’s mother and Arancha’s grandmother.
The story of the old woman’s brother differs completely from the version given by the caregiver: “It is not true that my sister was fine in Madrid. She always told me that she was not there and that Arancha’s husband was very bad. I think she was leaving without meaning to.”
incommunicado
The man acknowledges that Isabel “never told the brothers when she was going to Madrid, whenever she went there she was incommunicado.” Also that the woman “she never told him that she shouldn’t answer her phone because they wouldn’t let her pick it up in Madrid, but because I didn’t hear him“, but insists that the last time Isabel moved from Asturias to her niece’s house, the rest of the family or neighbors were not able to contact her either.
The victim’s brother has asked for the actor and his wife to be imprisoned, whom the judge released after their statement. This Friday a new hearing will take place in which the magistrate of the court of instruction 9 of Arganda del Rey will have to decide whether to modify the situation of the couple.
The day that Isabel passed away, the caregiver called Arancha and she told her that “will not take care of anything”. To the woman who attended the old woman, that reaction “didn’t seem normal”. But the caregiver remembers that she was affected by Arancha after the death of her aunt: “When I told her that she had died, she cried.”