THE Provincial Court of Navarra Ha This Monday a man was sentenced to 18 years in prison for him murder of his partner and associate at the bar that both of them rushed Pamplona.
The crime occurred on July 1, 2023 in the establishment kitchenWhen Fengling Yang, 53, killed Zhen Jiang47 years old and mother of 4 children, from behind and with a machete.
He A murder has shaken the city of Pamplonawho gathered in the Consistorial Square to condemn the crime, in a demonstration attended by the main authorities of the Foral Community.
The accused was sentenced to 18-year prison sentence for treasonous murder and aggravating relationshipalthough a mitigating circumstance of confession was also applied to him, for having quickly gone to the municipal police headquarters to confess to the crime.
Likewise, it was imposed absolute disqualification and payment of procedural costs.
Once two-thirds of the sentence has been served or the third degree has been reached, the accused will be expelled from the national territory and you won’t be able to come back for 10 years.
If after the decade he decides to return to Spain, the sentence imposes on him 10 additional years of probation and a ban on communicating with the victim’s children, as well as on coming within 2 kilometres of their home, place of work or the place where they are located.
Finally, the sentence also imposes on Fengling Yang a compensation of 552,383 euros to be paid to the victim’s four children.
The sentence was pronounced in respect for all partiesrepresented by the prosecution, the defense lawyers, the accusation embodied by the victim’s children and the popular accusations – Pamplona City Council, Government of Navarre and Municipal Service for Attention to Women.
During the brief hearing which took place this Monday at the Palais de Justice, The translator asked the accused if he was satisfied with the sentence imposed.to which The defendant answered “yes.”while the parties have shown one by one their agreement with the agreement.
The prosecution, satisfied with the sentence
Prosecutor María Cruz García Huesa told the media that “even taking into account the latest sentences handed down by the juries of Navarre, The penalty is higher than the penalties that have existed“.
García Huesa explained that The sentence is one year less than the deal she herself offered to her defense attorney.which he ultimately decided to reject.
However, he eventually reached a agreement with private prosecutionwho was brought to the sentence pronounced this Monday by the court of Navarre.
“I am satisfied with the penaltyand it seems to me that this is a result which materially produces justice, even if Morally, it is obvious that for children, this does not compensate for the lack of their mother.” he lamented.
For his part, the lawyer of the Pamplona City Council, Víctor Sarasaconsidered the agreement “satisfactory” for the parties, since “justice has been done and the sentence is important, even if it always depends on the prism through which each person sees it.
