A driver has been sentenced to three years in prison by the Third Section of the Alicante Provincial Court for exceeding the speed limit while intoxicated and testing positive for cocaine. This also resulted in an accident that resulted in the deaths of a couple, aged 83 and 78, and the injury of their 11-year-old granddaughter, who was travelling in a separate vehicle. The incident took place in Pinoso in July 2020.

The individual who was convicted has entered into a plea agreement and has been sentenced for crimes against road safety, reckless homicide, and injuries.

The tragedy took place at an intersection in the heart of Pinoso, near the Rico Lucas speed bump. The vehicle in which the victims were travelling collided sideways with the driver, who was subsequently convicted, as he was travelling at a rate of over 90 kilometres per hour at the time, despite the fact that the speed limit was 30 kilometres per hour.

Following the acknowledgement of responsibility for the crime and the agreement reached with the family of the deceased regarding the payment of financial compensation as a mechanism for reparation for the damage caused, based on civil liability, the Prosecutor’s Office initially requested a six-year prison sentence. However, this sentence was reduced by half.

He was also sentenced to a six-year driving ban in addition to the prison sentence. His vehicle was also confiscated.

On Thursday afternoon, 22nd March, a fight occurred in the Plaza del Congreso Eucarístico in Elche, next to the Basilica of Santa María. As a consequence, two young men were apprehended, and at least two others were identified.

A knife was even brandished during the street altercation in which the four were involved. Those who have been arrested are facing charges of making severe threats with a knife.

Shortly prior to 5:00 p.m., an altercation ensued. The local police were informed by a witness, and they promptly dispatched multiple units to the location.

It is believed that the altercation originated over an electric scooter. One of the detainees had loaned the other one a scooter, and he was requesting its return after claiming that it had not been returned.

A woman has been sentenced to a total of 19 years and seven and a half months in prison by the Jury Court of the Seventh Section of the Alicante Court, which is located in Elche. She was convicted of murdering her two-year-old son in Bigastro by suffocation after having routinely abused him, as she had done with her other sons.

The Court, which upheld the jury’s verdict, convicted her of one count of murder, another count of habitual abuse, and six counts of bodily harm. The Court considered the aggravating circumstance of kinship and the mitigating circumstances of confession, undue delay, and acting under the influence of drugs.

The convicted woman is required to pay €100,000 in compensation to each of the deceased’s two brothers, as well as an additional €10,000 to the deceased’s twin, for the injuries and after-effects he experienced as a result of the incident.

A house in the town of Bigastro was the residence of the mother and her children, who were two-year-old twins and a nine-year-old girl at the time, as indicated by the statement of proven facts in the sentence. The convicted woman struck the twins with a variety of objects on the head, torso, or extremities and shook them on at least six occasions, resulting in multiple fractures.

On June 11th, 2022, the woman returned from the park with the two children and, after putting one of them to bed, grabbed the other by the neck and squeezed him until he perished by strangulation, the attacks continued repeatedly, establishing a climate of peaceful disruption.

The jury determined that the defendant’s psychological state was exacerbated by her drug use since the age of 20, which had a detrimental impact on her willpower at the time of the homicide. The prosecution and defence concurred with the Prosecutor’s Office during the oral hearing, while the defendant acknowledged the facts. The Alicante Court’s sentence is not definitive and may be appealed to the Civil and Criminal Division of the TSJCV.