The defendant was unanimously convicted by a jury of killing a woman and concealing her body at the house he owned in Alicante for about a month in 2023. Furthermore, even if cruelty has not been demonstrated, the jury’s nine members think he behaved with malice aforethought.
During the first session of the trial, which was held at the Alicante Provincial Court, the individual, who has undifferentiated schizophrenia and a personality disorder, acknowledged that he committed the crime and “knew the damage caused.”
He stated that the tenant “mistreated him more and more every day” and made his “life miserable.” He claimed that the management “abandoned” him and that he “had no treatment” for his ailment at the time.
However, seven out of nine jurors found that the defendant was “in possession of his faculties” at the time of the crime, according to Leonardo Vargas, the private prosecution lawyer at the Legal Law Abogados business.
The private prosecution, acting on behalf of the victim’s sole son, lowered the prison term from 21 to 17 years and six months in reaction to this decision, while the prosecutor’s office increased it from 12 to 15 years.
On the amount of compensation for the victim’s kid, however, the parties cannot agree. The private prosecution continues to demand €90,000 for the relative, while the prosecutor is requesting €20,000.
Due to his condition, the defence lawyer asked that the defendant be given the mitigating circumstances of confession and non-imputability. Only the former has been identified since, on September 24th, 2023, about a month after the August 29th occurrences, the man called the National Police to confess to the crime.
Author: Derek Appleton
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