“I cut his neck and his windpipe came out, but I’m not a murderer”The paramedic accused of slitting a nurse’s throat out of jealousy at the Príncipe de Asturias Hospital in Alcalá de Henares in March 2021 has told the court.I am a good person and I regret it every day of my life.“I believe in justice and I would like to apologize to the family,” added Gonzalo R. The victim’s family is asking that she be sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder.
The trial began this Monday with the selection of members of the popular jury who will pursue the events that occurred on March 6, 2021, the previous reports and the statement of the accused.
The prosecutor demands 21 years in prison for the crime of murder. The parents and children are asking for 25 years in prison even though they believe that all the aggravating circumstances of crime of murder like cruelty and betrayal.
Suspected mental disorder
Defense attorney characterizes the facts as a crime of homicide with a complete defense for temporary mental disorder and subsidiarily a mitigating circumstance for tantrum and temporary mental disorder. In his report, the lawyer stressed that his client “He lost his mind” when the deceased allegedly told him that he was going to rape his daughter. “This is a temporary mental disorder. This is not normal and it is an excuse or an extenuating circumstance,” he stressed.
He killed him with cruelty
The prosecutor, on the other hand, emphasized that Gonzalo killed Sergio “consciously, violently, deliberately and taking advantage of the fact that couldn’t defend himself» when he was surprised in the break room while he was about to eat a sandwich.
The private charges argue that the victim had no possibility of fleeing and influence the cruelty by stabbing her repeatedly in different parts of the body in the toilet. Furthermore, he continued to stab him even though he was already dead on the ground.
The accused told his lawyer’s questions that he had known the victim for a decade and that one day at the hospital, a colleague asked him if he was still with his partner. “I didn’t understand the question and he told me he had something with Sergio and I kept a watchful eye. I started seeing things that weren’t normal and she told me that she slept with him once, she swore to me that she wasn’t going to get back with him and that it was just a mistake. “I thought he was going to continue to love me,” he confessed.
The accused also reported having seen “videos, messages, emails” between his partner and the nurse he murdered. “For a normal person, it’s embarrassing. I told him not to interfere with my family. Totally arrogant, he told me not to say it because of the hospital,” he recalls.
The accused tried to justify his actions by claiming that the nurse had asked him for 15,000 euros not to show the videos with his ex-partner and that he had given her 8,000 euros to delete all the images. After that, according to the alleged killer, months passed without any incident until Sergio asked him for more money in February 2023, setting the date for March 7.
On the morning of the crime, Gonzalo got into an argument with his ex-girlfriend and she left the house to go to the hospital. “I put on the uniform so I could go to the hospital even if I wasn’t on duty. I went up with a knife to scare Sergio if he saw him. I wanted to talk to Carolina and resolve the problem. I saw Sergio. I wasn’t going to kill him. I asked him where Carolina was and He told me he was going to continue raping her. and also his daughter,” he said.
At that moment, between tears, the accused confessed to the crime: “He I cut my neck, I admit it’s hard. I recognize it. I’m not a murderer. I have the image of the trachea, of the neck. I didn’t know how to handle it. I am a cousin. I lived a lie. “I am a good person.”
Crime of jealousy
The indictment says Gonzalo believed his romantic partner, a nurse at Prince of Asturias Hospital in Alcalá de Henaresshe could have resumed a relationship with Sergio, a fellow nurse at work.
Thus, according to the account of events, on March 6, 2021, he put on his ambulance uniform to access the hospital with the intention of killing Sergio, who worked as a nurse in said hospital.
Once inside the hospital, the accused prowled the area until he found his target. Around 1:45 p.m., just as the victim entered the bathroom, Gonzalo followed him and “in a surprising and unexpected manner” began attacking him with the knife he was carrying, stabbing him several times and several times in different places. .of the body “until death”.
The accused has been deprived of his liberty for this reason since March 6, 2021. According to the Europa Press agency, under civil liability, the prosecution is demanding 940,000 euros in compensation for the relatives of the deceased.
