The two teenagers who are suspected of killing Cloe looked up footage of real crimes online to learn how to do it. The Guardia Civil’s investigation of the two suspects’ phones found this disturbing information. The trial for this murder is already over, and the sentencing will take place in a juvenile court in Alicante. The activity logs on these devices helped the police figure out which films they watched and how they used one of them to get the idea to cut someone’s throat. One person held her down while the other cut her neck with a knife like a saw.
Cloe’s ex-boyfriend and a classmate, both 17 years old, are on trial for murder. The 15-year-old girl was killed at Orihuela Costa on the afternoon of November 24th, last year, the day before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The prosecution says it was a crime against women since Cloe broke up with her lover. He then got a friend to kill the person they had been plotting to kill for weeks. The prosecution wants both of them to get the longest term possible in juvenile court: eight years in a closed juvenile detention centre for murder. They don’t care what each person’s job is because they planned everything together. The prosecution stressed that “both exhibit psychopathological traits,” pointing out that they looked for the tapes without being frightened by what they saw, just to plan how they were going to kill Cloe. The young woman went to a dark alleyway where she didn’t anticipate to be attacked and killed.
Investigators were able to piece together the texts the two sent each other that night, in which they bragged about what they had just done, by looking at the defendants’ cell phones. While Cloe was dying, they sent each other pictures of themselves playing video games at home and bragged about what had transpired. But they were able to trace Cloe’s travels with an app they had put on her phone, and they found out that she was at Torrevieja Hospital. At that time, they started to worry that their victim might have lived. “You should have done it like in the video,” one of them told the other. Another one put a picture on social media to make it look like he was someplace else when the incident happened. The knife came from a Chinese bazaar, and the defendants tried to get rid of it by lighting it on fire along with other bloody things and what looked like gloves in an abandoned house nearby. They utilised BBQ pills to speed things up.
Autopsy
The forensic pathologist who did the autopsy said that the victim had up to six knife wounds to her neck and two other less serious injuries. He said that the injuries, which he called an incomplete throat-slitting, hurt blood vessels on the outside of the body, like the carotid artery and jugular vein, and caused a lot of bleeding. If the internal blood vessels had also been damaged, the young woman would have died in just a few seconds. Even though she was hurt, Cloe was able to get up and walk to her brother’s house to ask for aid. He lived nearby. He took her to Torrevieja Hospital right away, but because her condition was so bad, nothing could be done to save her life.
Even though both defendants admitted to the crime throughout the trial, neither the prosecution nor the private prosecution is willing to shorten their sentence for the murder by even one day. “They don’t feel sorry and they haven’t worked with the justice system.” “The only thing they regret is getting caught,” the prosecutor said. The prosecution stressed how much more pain the defendants caused Cloe’s family when they tried to make it look like the motive was a drug debt-related settling of bills, which was a false lead meant to throw off the inquiry. Civil Guard officials uncovered proof in the mobile phone history that Google Translate had been used to create an anonymous message in Russian saying that she would be next if the boyfriend didn’t pay. Juan Carlos Fuentes, the lawyer for Cloe’s family, highlighted that the murder was premeditated and carried out, so the victim had no way to defend herself.
Defences
Encarnación Obdulia Martínez, the lawyer for Cloe’s ex-boyfriend, said that the accused has admitted to the facts and worked with the legal system from the start. This should lead to a more merciful sentencing. At the same time, lawyers Iván Rodríguez and Gregorio Gotusso, who are defending the second defendant, said that this was a crime based on gender and that their client should not get the same sentence as the victim’s ex-boyfriend. “Our client has been the useful fool in this story.” They underlined that the primary defendant tried to put all the blame on someone else.
The two defendants were able to watch the hearing via video conference from the juvenile detention centre where they are being kept. They used their last words to say they were sorry. Cloe’s ex-boyfriend commented, “I don’t know what I was thinking.” The second defendant not only apologised, but he also said he bought the knife.
Make changes to the Child Protection Law
Following the trial, Cloe’s family has asked for a debate on amending the Juvenile Justice Law in light of such terrible crimes. We need to talk about whether murderers should be let free after eight years. Amor Fenoll, Cloe’s aunt, said outside the Alicante Courthouse, where the Juvenile Courts are located, “The law should be looked at again for this type of murder, and those responsible should be punished differently.” She cried and said, “There is no way to undo this.” She added, “It has been clearly shown that Cloe wasn’t even able to defend herself.”
The trial is over, and the jury is now waiting to make a decision. In a few weeks, Cloe’s ex-boyfriend will be back in court to be judged for how he treated her badly when they were together.
Author: Derek Appleton
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