The case against the person accused of killing 36-year-old Irishman Carl Aidan Carr with a brass knuckle in Torrevieja in September 2018 was finally settled today in an Elche Court. The agreement between the defence, the prosecutor’s office, and the private prosecution led to a big drop in the prison sentences that were originally asked for. The main suspect in the crime, an Irishman named Wayne Patrick W., was represented by lawyer Francisco Miguel Galiana Botella. He was given five years in prison for murder and an extra year for illegally possessing weapons (a pistol was taken from him), which is less than the fifteen and three years in prison that were originally asked for each crime.
Four more defendants in the case, three of whom had lawyers named José Soler Martín, José Manuel Alamán, and Andrés Morales, were each given a three-month jail sentence for concealment instead of the three years that were originally asked for each of them.
The government and the victim’s family’s private prosecution both agreed that all the accused should be given the mitigating circumstance of undue delay. The perpetrator should also be given the mitigating circumstance of drug addiction and reparation for damages, since he paid 95,000 euros before the trial to make up for the emotional harm he caused to Carl Aidan Carr’s mother. There is still another 5,000 euros to pay, and it must be done by March 20 of next year, as agreed upon. This will avoid a hearing by jury.
Wayne Patrick W. has to go to report to jail between March 11th to 20th to finish his time. The victim of the crime was born on March 11th. His body was hidden in a rural area of the municipality of Rojales, and it wasn’t found until four months after he went missing.
The Irishman who was found guilty of the crime has tried to say sorry to the victim’s mother, who was in the Elche courtroom, but she has not accepted his words of regret.
It took five defendants pleading guilty before the judge gave the decision “in voce” and agreed with what the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution said in their written arguments. The murder happened early on September 17, 2018, in a house in the La Siesta neighbourhood of Torrevieja. The house was home to the Irishman who was killed, the suspect Wayne Patrick, and a third person involved named Simon Mark F., who died in Ireland while the case was being investigated.
“Sexual approaches”
Two men named Carl Aidan Carr and Simon Mark F. went to the house with three other women, one of whom was Wayne’s ex-girlfriend. The victim ended up having a relationship with her on the couch, which she called “sexual advances.” Simon went to a pub in Orihuela Costa to tell his ex-boyfriend what had happened. The two of them then went back to their flat in Torrevieja.
When he walked in, Carl and Wayne’s ex-girlfriend were arguing on the couch. To put an end to Carl’s life, Wayne hit him several times in the face with a brass knuckle, and the other suspect, who died in Ireland, stabbed him several times, according to the charge made by the prosecution and admitted by the defendant. The hits killed Carl by breaking “complex fractures of the facial bone.”
Wayne Patrick and Simon Mark called one of the people they thought was covering up the crime, cleaned up the blood in the house, and then drove the body to a piece of land in Rojales to bury it.
Three women have also been put on trial for hiding the crime. One of them is Wayne’s ex-girlfriend, who started the attack that killed him. Even though this woman knew that her ex-partner had killed Carl, she told the Civil Guard a lie in her first statement so that Wayne wouldn’t be investigated.
Another woman who was found guilty of concealment gave Wayne Patrick a fake alibi by saying that he was with her in an Orihuela Costa pub the night of the crime and then at her house, where he stayed the night and left in the afternoon the next day.
Author: Derek Appleton
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