The man tried for the death of his partner in the district of La Coruña O Birloque, in September 2021, after stabbing him several times –because she wanted to break off the relationship after having lived together since July–, He was found guilty on Wednesday by the jury of the Provincial Court of La Coruña.
The prosecution and the private prosecution maintained, during the last session of the trial, held before the Provincial Court of La Coruña, the request for a sentence of 25 years in prison, with aggravating circumstances of treason, kinship and sex. They also influenced the lack of “collaboration” on the part of the accused, as well as in his lack of repentance. The defense, for its part, endorsed the request for qualification of the accused as homicide, as well as the application, among others, of the mitigating circumstance of anger or obstinacy and of having acted after having consumed “drugs”. alcohol and toxic drugs.
During the trial, specialists from the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Galicia (Imelga) They denied that the accused suffered from any disorder personality or psychotic disorders, although they confirmed a history of “alcohol and other substance dependence”. They also rejected the existence of elements allowing to consider that his cognitive capacities were impaired on the day of the events, after which he fled, and for which he was arrested a few days later in Madrid, after an intense search .
At the time It was the victim’s son who found the body. of his mother lying on the ground, with numerous stab wounds, as she returned from work to her apartment on Juan Darriba Street on September 19, around 2 a.m. Next to the body was the knife with which the 48-year-old man with whom she had started a relationship some time ago had attacked her and who had fled after committing the crime.
Previous discussions
The first information already indicated that the son of the deceased had admitted that, a few days earlier, The couple had a very strong argument.a point that was corroborated by neighbors of the apartment where the murder took place, who also heard screams in the previous days but none on the night of the events. The attacker had a history of gender violence against two other previous couples, although no complaints were filed in the case of the deceased woman from A Coruña.
The event shocked the herculean neighborhood of O Birloque, where the victim, a mother of two children and divorced for years, ran a bakery. After becoming aware of the event, by the town hall A silent gathering was urgently called in front of the town hall doors “as a sign of rejection” of the crime. The current mayor Inés Rey also spoke out, telling citizens of her “shock” at the “terrible assassination” and condemning it as “an aftereffect”. [del machismo] that as a society we must fight.
