The accusations ask for 22 years in prison, 10 of probation and the payment of 100,000 euros to the daughters
the people’s jury who during this week has participated in the trial of a man accused of ending the life of his wife in May of last year in Los Cristianos, south of Tenerife, has declared it today blame for murder and it has considered that he committed the crime with treachery without the victim having the chance to defend himself.
In the imposition of the sentence, the Jury maintains that the aggravating factors of kinship and gender violence.
Specifically, the version is supported that the woman was lying down in the afternoon when her husband first attacked her with scissors, causing numerous injuries to her neck but which were not fatal.
For this reason, she then went to the kitchen and picked up a large knife, while she took refuge in the patio trying in vain to close the door due to her husband’s strength. With the knife, she delivered seven stab wounds to the lung and heart, which on this occasion were fatal.
The accusations ask for 22 years in prison, 10 of probation and the payment of 100,000 euros, which the defense of the daughters raises to 112,000 for each of the daughters, while the defense believes that 10 years in prison and the payment of 31,800 euros to the daughters should be imposed.
The Prosecutor’s Office asked that it be recognized that he acted treacherously and that it was an episode of gender violence, as accepted by the jury.
They rule out taking into account that he acted alienated and the mitigation of having deposited 86,000 euros in the Court to face civil liability when concluding that this money was not contributed voluntarily but by order of the Court.
The defendant and the victim were married for more than fifty years and they spent half the year in Vigo and the rest in Los Cristianos, in the south of Tenerife, where the crime occurred.
Part of what happened was seen by the neighbor upstairs who observed the bloody woman trying to close the patio door and the man with the “demonic” face enter with a knife in his hand. This neighbor said that it was common for the condemned man to scream but she attributed it to the fact that he suffers from chronic deafness.
The jury also based its verdict on the expert reports that came to support the Prosecutor’s account of how the murder occurred.
According to experts, The man suffered from a paranoid disorder that resulted in being narcissistic, suspicious, distrustful, as well as having misogynist traits. and being prone to violent outbursts, but all agreed that these personality traits in no way imply that he was not able to control himself and that he knew very well what he was doing.
One of the daughters stopped talking to her mother for 21 years because she did not understand how she had made the decision to return to her father after everything that had happened, and it was not until six months before her death that they both made contact again, on a recommendation the psychological one who is still treating her. In addition to beatings and contempt, the daughters were also continually harassed by the father’s insults.
The minor did always maintain constant contact with her due to the fear that what happened that afternoon would finally happen.
The two sisters reported that the mistreatment was continuous and they had to call the National Police almost every day but the agents could not do anything because the woman refused to file complaints and they were prevented from accessing the house.
The victim lived for years in a situation of panic and received beatings and mental and physical abuse for any reason, as was revealed in the trial. The daughters referred to the defendant as “a real monster & rdquor ;, “a despicable being & rdquor; and a abuser habitual & rdquor ;.
During his statement on the first day, the man denied that he had stabbed the woman and only acknowledged one of the seven wounds, but he assured that it originated from the fall of both of them when they were struggling in the patio.