A sentence of almost 32 years in prison is requested for the crimes of malicious murder, home invasion, damage and mistreatment in the area of gender violence.
A popular jury declared this morning accused of stabbing his ex-partner to death guilty of murder and other minor crimes in Mansilla de las Mulas (León) on July 19, 2021, to whom he stabbed three times.
The trial began on October 16 and was scheduled for sentencing this Monday with the presentation of the definitive conclusions of the different parties, in which the Prosecutor’s Office has maintained for the accused, 38 years old, a request for a sentence of almost 32 years in prison for the crimes of treacherous murder, home invasion, damage and mistreatment in the area of gender violence.
The jury has considered unanimously proven all the questions that the court gave him on which to base his guilty verdict.
Among them, the accused and the victim, who was 36 years old when she was murdered, They had a stable romantic relationshipwhich the former denied during the trial to try to avoid the aggravating circumstance of kinship.
Thus, the jury has endorsed in its verdict that The murder took place shortly before one in the morning on the aforementioned date in a home on the third floor of the property located at number 44 Villa de Lil Street in this town in León, which has 1,750 inhabitants and is located just over twenty kilometers from the capital.
Also that on the afternoon of April 18, 2021, the accused and the victim met in Puente Villarente and later went to Mansilla de las Mulas for a drink.
Subsequently, the woman took the accused in her vehicle back to León to her home and she returned to Mansilla de las Mulas, where she spent the rest of the day with several friends.
Around midnight on April 18 to 19, 2021, the accused, motivated by his sense of possession over her, took her vehicle and He went to the victim’s house to supposedly try to surprise her. since I thought she was with another man.
Arriving He broke the glass of the portal door and entered the interior of the propertywent up to her apartment, where, with a kick, he broke the door and entered the house without authorization.
Inside the house an argument started and he began searching throughout the house for his supposed companion despite the fact that the woman told him that she was alone.
He then ordered her to let him see the contents of her mobile phone, to which the young woman refused and both started a struggle to get hold of the device.
After leaving the house to go to his car, he returned to the house a few minutes later and it was made with a knife that was in the kitchenwith which he stabbed him three times in the dorsal area.
After committing the attack, the man left the house moments later, He went to the medical center and told the neighbors that he had killed her.
During his testimony at trial, the accused, who At no time has he shown regrethe limited himself to repeating that he does not remember what happened and therefore does not know if he killed her.