The court applies the aggravating factors of kinship and action for gender reasons and takes into account the extenuating factor of confession
The Provincial Court of Badajoz has sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison a man accused of trying to cut off the hands of his ex-partner in Almendralejo (Badajoz) in December 2020, after she refused to resume the sentimental relationship. The victim, due to the serious attackhas partially lost functionality in both arms.
The room considers the male “fully responsible” for a crime of injuries due to the uselessness of a principal memberwith the circumstances aggravating factors of kinship and action for gender reasonsas well as another of breach of precautionary measure, since when he assaulted his ex-wife he had a Restraining order due to a previous violent episode. In sentencing, the court takes into account the extenuating confession for both crimes, as requested by the defendant’s defense.
For the crime of injury, a sentence has been imposed sentence of 10 years and 6 months in prison, as well as the prohibition to approach a distance of less than 500 meters from the victim, to her home and place of work, as well as to communicate with her for any period of 16 years. Meanwhile, for the crime of breach, he is punished with 9 months in prison. The prosecution and the private prosecution requested 11 years in prison for the first and 11 months in prison for the second.
Furthermore, the condemned will have to compensate the victim for physical and moral damages with 148,633.16 euros.The court accredited that on December 26, 2020, the assailant, despite having a restraining order in force against the victim, broke into her home at around 11:10 p.m., after violently hitting the door and breaking it down. The man went to the woman’s bedroom, who had woken up by her loud noises, and with great aggressiveness, violently grabbed her by her hair and dragged her by force to the street, demanding that they resume her relationship. .
At that moment, “with the purpose of undermining her physical integrity and as an expression of his situation of dominance and subjugation over her,” he used the knife he was carrying, proceeded to inflict multiple cuts on both wristsarriving to the victim lose consciousness due to the seriousness of the injuries inflicted. The woman took 425 days to recover after an extremely complex medical-surgical treatment and specific functional rehabilitation over a long period of time.
During the trial, which was held on April 27 at the Provincial Court of Badajoz behind closed doors, the convicted man acknowledged having caused serious injuries to his ex-partner’s hands with a knife, but assured he did it in a situation of outburst due to jealousy and under the influence of alcohol.
The sentence is not final and an appeal can be made against it before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura (TSJEx)