He Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) confirmed the sentence pronounced by the Malaga Court who sentenced José Luis, a primary school teacher, to 15 years in prison for suffocating his partner, aged 37 and of Russian origin, in Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga) and burning her body in a premises in Nerja.
The crime took place on the morning of August 2, 2021, when the accused was maintaining a lively discussion with the victim at the family home. In doing so, “guided by the goal of ending his life”, he placed his hand around her neck. nylon rope and strangled her.
Then he wrapped the body in a blanket and placed it in a basketI covered it with cardboard, took it to the garage and put it in the trunk of your vehicle. Then he drove the car to a rural area near the road leading to the old sugar factory. maroonin the municipality of Nerja, 43 kilometers from his house. Once there, he took it out of the trunk and placed it on the ground, piling vegetation under the head and neck in order to concentrate the fire in that area.
After placing a few bottles of cleaning alcohol he had purchased hours before next to the body, he lit a flame and set it on fire. The accused left the scene while his partner’s body burned in the flames. He then returned home, where the Guard Civilwho had been alerted by a neighborwho crossed paths with the murderer in the garage and saw something suspicious in his attitude.
Because of these facts, a popular jury unanimously declared him guilty of crime of homicide with aggravation of kinshipand the Malaga court sentenced him at first instance to 15 years in prison. The defense filed an appeal to the TSJA, which rejected it and upheld the conviction in its entirety.
“The joint examination of the facts and evidence considered as proven, prior, contemporary and subsequent to the death of the woman, leads inexorably to consider the homicide as intentional and not reckless”, as the defendant requested. In addition, the convicted person must compensate the victim’s son in 200,000 euros in matters of civil liability.
At trial, the defendant alleged that his partner died accidentally during a “habitual” sadomasochistic sexual practice between them, during which they used rope. Juan Luis, 53 years old Regarding the date of the crime, he said he had not said it before out of “shame”. He has worked as a teacher all his life and for the last two years he has worked as a primary teacher in a Catholic school in Nerja. There have been no previous complaintsbut the day before the crime, local police had identified the man following an argument. The woman, victim of abuse by a former partner, was in the Viogen system.
