The Criminal Division of the Supreme Court has sentenced permanent prison reviewable to the murderer of Marta Calvo, Jorge Ignacio Palmaand increased the compensation to be paid to the young woman’s parents for civil liability to €140,000. The High Court also upheld a sentence of 137 years in prison for the murder of two other women and the attempted murder of six other people during sexual intercourse involving cocaine use between June 2018 and November 2019.
The Supreme Court thus partially considers the appeal of private accusations against the decision of the Superior Court of Justice of Valencia which, like a jury court of the Provincial Court of that city, imposed a single sentence for the three murders accomplished and The permanent and revisable prison sentence was not applied. who requested charges for the murder of Marta Calvo, which was the third she had committed.
The Chamber considers, however, that this maximum prison sentence for a third crime may be imposed on those who “serial killers” that during the same process, trial and conviction, they have already been found guilty of two murders, as is the case in this case. The court concludes that the requirements of Article 140.2 of the Criminal Code are met, which provides for the imposition of the aforementioned sentence on “a person convicted of murder who has been found guilty of the death of more than two persons”: one crime plus two of the previous ones.
In summary, the proven facts describe that the convict met women to have sexual relations in exchange for a price, but he introduced them to cocaine in large quantities through their sexual organs against their will and without their consent. This caused the death of three victims and nearly killed six others who were able to save their lives by going to the hospital before the cocaine had the effect it had on the three women it killed.
