The Madrid Provincial Court sentenced Jesús Pradales to fourteen years in prison for the intentional homicide of his partner, Juana Canal, whom he killed in the early hours of February 23, 2003 in an apartment in Ciudad Lineal. This is indicated by a sentence, to which Europa Press had access, in which the confessed murderer is punished as the perpetrator responsible for a crime of homicide, with the aggravating circumstance of kinship. The convicted person must compensate the deceased’s son to the tune of 118,000 euros, and each of his brothers to the tune of 22,000 euros.
The sentence comes after a popular jury found Jesús guilty of the intentional homicide of his former partner on September 26 and ruled out that it was an accidental death, as the defense claimed. The members of the jury thus supported the thesis of the prosecutor and lawyer of SOS Desaparecidos, Juan Manuel Medina, who maintained that the deceased had not died accidentally after the accused pushed her away with his arm to prevent her from attack him during a discussion. .
In the judgment, the court emphasizes that “it is necessary to take into account the seriousness of the damage suffered by the members of the family, linked to the experience of the sudden loss of a mother and a sister, the trial having proven that the son who lived with her “He had to leave the house because he could not pay the rent, and he even died without having any news of what had happened to his mother.”
The magistrates refuse to consider a mitigating circumstance of confession, since “the accused does not in any way meet any of the required conditions”. “He never appeared before the authorities to express what he had done, and it was only when he was arrested and faced with the irrefutable evidence found concerning the remains of the woman who had been his romantic companion, that he gives a version of what happened, only acknowledging having dismembered the Juana canal. The accused left a message for Sergio, Juana’s eldest son, in which he wrote that his mother had taken. medication and left.
