The Court of Violence against Women 4 of Barcelona, acting as guardian, decreed provisional imprisonment without bail for the man arrested in Barcelona after confessing to killing his wife in Castellón.
In a document consulted by Europa Press this Wednesday, they explain that the case is opened for the crime of homicide/murder.
The prisoner, who was in the cells of the police station Mossos of the Squara des Corts, was taken to court around 9:30 a.m.
The murdered woman and the prisoner had been a couple “at least since 2020”, according to the order, since in May of the same year, there was a first police report between the person under investigation and the deceased.
There are also complaints in October 2020 for mistreatment; for threats on February 5, 2021; for violation of sentence on March 23, 2022 and for an alleged crime of attempted homicide on March 8, 2023.
Despite this story, the woman He did not have a protective order in effect. and continued to have an “on-and-off” relationship with her husband, which they last resumed on August 28 this year, although they no longer live together.
The events date back to the night of Sunday to Monday, September 2, when the man stabbed his partner several times at his home in Castellón, as he admitted in court, causing her death.
Afterwards, He left the house taking the knife which he threw in a place he does not remember but near the deceased’s home, and took a train to Barcelona.
It was upon his arrival at Sants station that he spoke to agents of the Mossos d’Esquadra and confessed the facts to them.
The confessed perpetrator of Lorena’s crime claimed that at the time of the crime he was drunk and a drug user. methadone and narcotic substances.
Possible sanctions
However, the judge clarified in the arrest warrant that “he does not present any alteration that prevents him from knowing the extent of the events that he reported to the police station and before this court of violence against women in custody functions”.
Furthermore, taking into account the complaints filed by the woman, the sentence can range from 10 years in prison, if it is established that it is a homicide, to 25 years, in the case of murder.
