The defendant killed his partner and hid her in the Congost River, where she was found two months later in an advanced state of decomposition.
The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has confirmed the penalty of 24 years in prison for murder with treachery and another 2 for habitual mistreatment in the field of gender violence for man accused of killing his wife in Granollers in 2018 and hiding her in the Congost river. Thus, the high court rejects the appeal filed by the defendant, JRP A, against the ruling of the Barcelona Court of October 2022 that convicted him of the crime after the guilty verdict handed down by a popular jury.
The magistrates also prohibit the defendant from approaching and communicating with the victim’s son, mother and siblings for 14 years, once the sentence has been completed, as well as five years of probation. In addition, it must compensate the son, a minor, with 300,000 euros, the victim’s mother with 120,000 euros plus 3,850 for funeral expenses and each of the two brothers with 50,000 euros.
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The popular jury unanimously considered that the convicted man killed the victim without her having the chance to defend herself, and maintained that he had an attitude of “contempt and superiority” towards the woman and that, on several occasions, he had physically mistreated her. . During the trial, which was held on September 27, 2022, the man denied the facts and assured that he had never assaulted the victim, while affirming that the woman’s ex-partner had threatened him with more than one blow.
A body near the collector
Both the popular jury and the Barcelona Court and now the TSJC They have endorsed the prosecution’s account, according to which on the night of Monday, July 16 to Tuesday, July 17, 2018, the defendant was with his wife in the room where they lived. They argued and the defendant left the apartment. After a while the woman did too. They spoke several times on the phone and at 2 in the morning they met somewhere near the Granollers river promenade. There, the man killed the woman and hid her body in a collector near the banks of the Congost River. The victim, 25 years old and of Bolivian origin, was two months pregnant, and she was located about two months later in an advanced state of decomposition and with her head severed and in a plastic bag. The man was arrested almost a year later, in early July 2019.