THE The Seville court sentenced him to 23 and a half years in prison. José Antonio Sánchez Barriga for killing a man and seriously injuring two other people after attacking them with an axe.
It turns out that the now convicted man was the main witness in the Arny case, a major anti-pedophilia case thatevolved Seville in the 90s. Today he is once again involved in an event in which he is the protagonist.
The events occurred, the judgment details, in 2021. In February of that year, the now-convicted man received the order. from the deceased from a job in a house owned by some of his acquaintances.
On February 5, the convict arrived at the house in question. His acquaintance and the owners of the house where he had carried out the work were present. He argued with all three over money and drugs.
The atmosphere heated up until the now-convict pulled out a weapon, similar to an axe, and attacked him. He first attacked the man who had given him the job. The first cut was at the neck, at the jugular.
with an axe
“At the same time, he demanded the money they had collected, as well as the drugs they had,” the sentence states, which collects that the condemned He continued to hit the man as he fell onto the bed.
When he had finished the life of this man, he faced the other two present. He attacked them both with the axe and inflicted more or less serious injuries on them. After that he left the scene and hid the weapon.
In its verdict, the jury considered that it was proven that the accused was affected by abnormal personality traits and mixed personality disorderantisocial and narcissistic, to which is added continuous drug use for many years.
Drugs
This is compounded by periods of abstinence associated with his time in prison, even though his history of drug use narcotic substances “did not condition the perpetration of the facts.”
Furthermore, and as civil liability, he will have to compensate the victim’s family and the two injured persons for a total amount of 143,500 euros. The aggravating circumstance of repeat offense applies because The accused has already been sentenced to 15 years in prison. for the crime of murder by final judgment of December 29, 2005 rendered by the Fourth Section of the Provincial Court of Seville.
