Elderly man accused of kill another with a cane to the head in a retirement home in Belmonte de Miranda (Asturias) was sentenced to one year in prison and the payment of compensation of 18,000 euros to the victim’s brother.
The facts occurred on April 29, 2020 around 5:45 p.m.: the convicted person and his victim They started arguing for reasons that are not stated within the residence’s facilities, in an area close to the river and the football field.
During the fight, the accused hit the victim with a wooden cane and He hit him in the right parietal areaas well as on the hand on the same side and on the left side.
Before the attack, the deceased had various medical pathologies. anticoagulant treatment was administeredsomething that there is no evidence that the convict knew. The medication and the attack on the head caused the elderly man to suffer a post-traumatic brain hemorrhage, which caused him to lose consciousness between 10:15 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. of the same day, while he was in the patient’s room. residence where he was going to spend the night.
When the workers learned of the old man’s condition, he was transferred to the Central University Hospital of Asturias, where he died on May 6, 2020 following a cerebral hemorrhage.
The previous pathological state and the treatment with anticoagulants acted as a favorable or aggravating element for the hemorrhage to occur or to have fatal consequences. If these two factors have not occurred, the consequences of the attack would have been minor.
After admitting the facts, the accused accepted a one-year prison sentence and special prohibition of the right to passive suffrage during the sentence. Under civil liability, the accused will compensate the brother of the deceased to the tune of 18,000 euros, part of which he has already paid.
This amount has been reduced regarding what would correspond due to the conjunction, as the cause of death, of the previous pathological state of the deceased and the anticoagulant treatment he received.
