A juvenile court in Alicante has sentenced the two young men accused of killing Cloe in Orihuela Costa to eight years in a juvenile detention centre. The young woman’s ex-boyfriend and a friend who helped him do it are the ones who did it. This is the longest sentence that may be given in juvenile court. It is the same as what the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution, represented by lawyer Juan Carlos Fuentes on behalf of the victim’s family, asked for.
Both defendants were found guilty of premeditated murder and given the same eight-year sentence, plus five years of supervised release. Because both of the defendants were underage when the incident happened, they will have to do their time in a closed juvenile detention centre until they become 21, which is the oldest age they may be held. If they commit a major crime, the law lets them finish their term in an adult prison. When the time comes, this option will be looked upon.
Cloe’s ex-boyfriend is now an adult; he turned 18 while he was in jail waiting to go to trial for these offences. The second defendant is still a child; he is 17 years old right now. If they serve their full terms, they will be freed from prison at age 25. After that, they will be on a monitoring program until age 30, since they were sentenced to five years of supervised release. The offenders and their parents must also pay the relatives of the dead young woman for the emotional pain they caused. Cloe’s ex-boyfriend is also still on trial for allegedly abusing her while they were together.
They can appeal the decision to the Provincial Court
The defence teams were still thinking about whether or not to file an appeal. Even though both defendants admitted to the crime and pleaded guilty at trial, no plea deal was negotiated. The defence said that their requested sentences had not been shortened by even one day, but the prosecution would not agree to this because the crime was so terrible. During the trial, Cloe’s ex-boyfriend’s lawyer, Encarnación Obdulia Martínez, said that her client had confessed to the crime from the beginning and worked with the police, which should have affected the judgement. At the same time, lawyers Iván Rodríguez and Gregorio Gotusso, who were representing the second offender, said that it was a case of gender-based violence and that their client should not get the same sentence as the victim’s ex-boyfriend. Their defence said that giving this second defendant the same punishment as the ex-boyfriend would be a win for the real criminal mastermind behind the crime. “The ex-boyfriend planned it and got his pal to do it. He was the one who did the crime and then tried to ruin her reputation by falsely attributing the murder to a drug-related settling of accounts. “One behaviour is not the same as the other,” Gotusso told this paper after the testing.
Psychopathological traits
On the afternoon of November 24th of last year, the day before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a 15-year-old girl was killed in Orihuela Costa. The prosecution says it was a hate crime because Cloe broke up with her boyfriend. He got a friend to do the murder, which they had been plotting for weeks. Because they had all planned everything together, the prosecution thought the specific roles of each man were not important. The Public Prosecutor’s Office said that both of them showed signs of being psychopathological, to the point that they even looked up videos of real crimes on the internet to practice how to do them. They looked at horrible pictures without exhibiting any fear, just to be ready for how they were going to kill Cloe. The young woman proceeded to a dark alley, not knowing that she was about 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’ mobile phones. They also sent each other pictures of themselves playing video games at home and bragged about what had transpired while Cloe was dying. But they were able to find out where Cloe was because they had installed an app on her phone that let them follow her movements. She was in Torrevieja Hospital. At that time, they started to worry that their victim might have lived. One of them said to the other, “You should have done it like in the video.” One of them posted a picture on social media to make it look like he was somewhere else when the incident happened. The defendants were sure that no one would read these messages because they were deleted after being read, so they all talked about the murder. The Guardia Civil was able to get them back, though, and they were very important to the conviction. The phones also put them at the crime scene that night.
There are other bits of evidence as well. The defendants bought the knife at a Chinese bazaar and tried to get rid of it by lighting it on fire, along with other bloodstained clothes and what looked like gloves, in an empty house nearby. They utilised grill fire starters to speed things up. The biological evidence recovered at the crime site and in the defendants’ house has also proved very important. The defendants had to confess because of this proof. But the court didn’t give them a single day less of their sentences for what they did.
Author: Derek Appleton
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