13 years and 40 days after the disappearance and death of her daughter Marta del Castillohis parents Antonio and Eva They are still fighting to find out what happened and find their daughter’s body. His last attempt will be to raise a confrontation between the person convicted of Marta’s murder, Miguel Carcaño, and the person convicted of covering up the crime, the then minor Francisco Javier aka El Cuco. The lawyer of Marta’s parents, Inmaculada Torres, has requested this in a letter sent to the Criminal Court number 7 of Seville, which will hold the trial against El Cuco at the end of May for false testimony in the case of the young Sevillian .
Marta’s family lawyer asks the court that Miguel Carcaño, who is summoned as a witness in the trial against his former friend, declare in person in the room and not by videoconference from prison. Thus, he understands, it would facilitate “the practice of a confrontation (between the two) … in order to find out the material truth of the factsconfronting what they say and watching each other’s reactions before the answers of the other”.
Francisco Javier Garcia Marin aka El Cuco He is accused of false testimony in the trial for the murder of Marta del Castillo that was held in 2011 and in which Miguel Carcaño was sentenced to 21 years in prison. The Cuckoo, who she was 15 years old when Marta del Castillo was murderedhad already been tried by a juvenile court and sentenced to two years and three months of internment for covering up the crime. In the trial against his friend, El Cuco testified as a witness that he was not in the flat of the Carcaño brothers on León XIII street in Seville neither the evening of the crime nor the early morning of the following day.
The problem is that in the trial against him the sentence establishes that he was on the floor and that he helped Carcaño to get rid of Marta’s body. That sentence was confirmed by the Court of Seville on October 20, 2011. El Cuco gave that version of the events during the reconstruction that took place on the floor. He then admitted that he had helped remove Marta’s body from the house. And he accused of participating in those events Samuel Benítez and Carcaño’s brother, Francisco Javier Delgado. Later, he retracted and attributed that confession to the fact that he had under pressure from the police. A defendant has the right to lie in a trial against him, according to Spanish law; but a witness cannot do it, hence El Cuco faces the accusation of perjury.
Rosalía, the mother of El Cucoalso testified as a witness in the trial of the crime of Marta and gave his son an alibi, who he claimed was at home sleeping that night. The woman faces a charge of perjury. An employee of a bar in Seville has denied that she was at home that morning until very late, which denies the version that the woman gave in court.
The trial against El Cuco and his mother for false testimony will be held at the end of May. El Cuco and his mother will give his version on the 26th of that month. Marta del Castillo’s parents will testify on the 27th. Miguel Carcaño will do so four days later. It may be one of the last opportunities to learn the truth of the crime.