Natalia’s body was transported by sea to a rock in Marbella, decapitated, cut open and without hands. Her ex-partner had killed her, suffocated her and then mutilated her so that she could not be identified. He threw his remains into the sea. His hands were found a few days later. YesYour head is still at the bottom of a beach. The Malaga public prosecutor’s office is now asking his ex-partner to serve 25 years in prison for the crime of murder and an additional nine months in prison for violating his sentence.
The events occurred on January 8, 2023. The man was arrested. A woman warned that the body found shortly before on a beach was that of her sister, a victim of abuse. At that time, the arrested person confessed the facts to the National Police.
According to the prosecutor’s preliminary conclusions, the accused had been in a romantic relationship with the victim for approximately seven months. That day, the accused met his colleague to pick him up with the rental van under the pretext of doing work, but he asked them to go to the vicinity of a religious center which he knew Natalia went to every Sunday.
Once there, according to the public accusation contained in his brief, the accused saw the woman approaching the religious center and, after speaking, agreed to enter. with him in the back of the van go somewhere more intimate. The defendant asked his companion to leave them in a parking lot and return the van.
They both went to the beach in Zaragoza, stopping in the dunes, where they had sex. After finishing, “with the intention of ending his life, in a surprising way and with I express my contempt for the female sex of the victim, grabbed her by the neck while she was on her back, without the possibility of defending herself, managing to suffocate her.”
This, the prosecution claims, caused the death of the woman, after which the accused “decapitated with a cutter who carried the head of the body and the two hands, throwing them into the sea, together with the body, to which he made an incision in the abdomen to make it sink and avoid being identified.
gender-based violence
According to the prosecution, the accused knew that an order prohibiting him from communicating by any means and from approaching his home, place of work or any other place issued to him by the court was in force at towards his ex-partner. Violence Against Women Court 1 of Marbella. A few days earlier, he had been found guilty of ill-treatment for breaking his nose.
For the prosecutor, it is a crime of murder, with the aggravating circumstance of discrimination against the female sex, for which he requests that the sentence of 25 years in prison; and another for violation of sentence, for which he asks to be sentenced to nine months in prison. In addition, he asks him to compensate the victim’s two children in the amount of 52,207.51 euros, one of the brothers in the amount of 15,662.25 euros and the other in the amount of 20,883 euros.
The investigation into this case began with a complaint filed by relatives at the police stations for the disappearance of a woman, victim of gender-based violence and he had received threats a few days ago from his former romantic partner, who had violated the precautionary measures issued by the judicial authority.
A few hours before the complaint was filed, the mutilated corpse of a woman, with itsimilar physical characteristics The missing woman was found by citizens on a beach in Marbella, after which her relatives assured that the remains belonged to her sister. Both hands were found a few days later.
