Margarita lived to be able to tell the man who murdered her son 15 years ago the same thing she had blurted out to him outside the Toledo Provincial Court: “I’ll see you in hell!” Jesús Heredia Iglesias was arrested this morning in the capital Murcia by the Fugitives Locator Group of the National Police and the Special Operations Group (GOES). He had been wanted for eleven years for the murder of Jesús Robles Galera, which occurred in a bar in Talavera de la Reina in 2009.
Hidden with his wife in a house from which he barely leaves, Jesús is bigger than in the photo that the National Police published in its section “Most Wanted”, a successful distribution campaign which allows the Fugitive Location Group to achieve extraordinary results.
Prado, Margarita’s daughter, learned of the arrest after nine in the morning. “I have some really good news. “He was arrested,” said the family’s lawyer, María Ángeles Ten, astonished. “Oh my God; “Oh, for the love of God!”, the sister of the late Jesús Robles reacted in tears.
For the lawyer, it is a great satisfaction: “You still had the sting of having won a trial and the murderer was on the run. It was a case that took a lot of work to get a new trial. It seemed that all this work was worthless as long as Jesús Heredia remained free. »
Ten learned of the arrest when he received a message from this newspaper on WhatsApp. “I am very happy for the family,” said the lawyer, reproducing Prado’s words when he learned of the arrest of his brother’s killer: “He celebrates Christmas and we ruin it”.
On Wednesday evening, the lawyer received information from a woman who located Jesús Heredia Iglesias in Murcia and immediately transferred the data to 091, to the escapees page of the National Police and to the email ‘losmasbuscados@ police.es’. By that time, the Fugitive Location Group had already controlled the house, awaiting an entry and search order, where Jesús Heredia Iglesias was finally chained around seven in the morning.
That’s why he ran away
On Friday, January 31, 2014, at the Provincial Court of Toledo, a popular jury found Jesús Heredia Iglesias guilty of the murder of Jesús Robles Galera. But the accused was not in prison, having been acquitted in a first trial which was later canceled, and was therefore able to return home while awaiting the judgment.
The resolution (15 years in prison for the crime and another for illegal possession of a weapon) was read and published four days later, on Tuesday, February 4, by the judge of the jury court, Manuel Gutiérrez, president of the court of Toledo. . Jesús Heredia, however, did not appear in the noble hall of the old building to hear the judgment. It was over eleven years ago. But this Thursday, he will sleep behind bars.
