The judge orders the suspects’ DNA to be re-matched with Helena Jubany’s sweater.

This sequence comes after that sample, and other samples obtained from Jubany’s body during autopsy – material found in a fingernail as well as on his genitals – were compared separately and separately with DNA from both Jiménez and Laiglesia, and the result was negative. . In both cases. Judge Díaz Villar orders the National Police to make this new comparison and report whether the results differ or are of interesting value for the investigation when making this joint contrast with the genetic profiles of the victim and the two investigated.

Joan JubanyThe victim’s brother was pleased with the judge’s decision to proceed with the evidence, but regretted the prosecution’s position at this stage of the investigation. “We do not understand that you did not propose new tests. In his statements to EL PERIÓDICO from the Prensa Ibérica group, he also opposed what was demanded by us.”

female DNA

Jubany’s family had also requested that these unidentified DNA samples be compared with the genetic profiles of two women who had previously been investigated for this crime: Montse Careta and Ana Echaguibel. Judge Díaz denies this second request, but orders both the institute and the police force to examine whether any of the unidentified DNA samples they are hiding are from a woman. In this case, the judge qualifies at the briefing, it would be valuable again to compare them with the profile of Careta and Echaguibel. Careta’s sister, who committed suicide in prison after being arrested for this crime, always kept her innocence and stated that she acted under the pressure of her boyfriend Laiglesia.

The judge completely rejected the Jubany family’s last request: to prepare a new police report combining the evidence available to date and entrust this and any subsequent investigations to a group, the Unitat Central d’Homicidis of Mossos d’Esquadra. He specializes in unresolved cases.

DNA samples from both Jubany’s body and shirt belong to an unidentified man who, according to genetic testing to date, is neither Santi Laiglesia nor Xavi Jiménez. letters the victim received before the murder.

biological clues

The clothes Jubany wore the day she was killed remained in a courthouse for twenty years. A badly degraded biological sample containing the victim’s DNA mix was removed from the victim’s brown sweater. two or more people. One of the persons was Jubany himself, and the other was an unidentified man. The judge therefore requests a new partner comparison of this sample with the profiles of Laiglesia and Jiménez.

At the same time, the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Science, urged by the Sabadell court to retrieve samples taken during the autopsy in Jubany hours after the crime, reported: from the cloths –cotton-tipped walking sticks– and also samples from the victim’s fingernail. By analyzing these samples on his own with up-to-date technology, both the material extracted from the nail and the swab samples revealed the genetic remains of another unidentified person: another man.

Negative previous matches

Comparisons made separately The profile of the two suspects and all those DNA samples from an unidentified man still came back negative.

The first individual contrast was with Jiménez. After this initial negative analysis, the judge said, It will be checked against Laiglesa’s DNA. That second individual comparison was also negative. The jury wanted the comparison to be repeated with the DNA mix from the jersey, but this time they decided it should be done with the profiles of Jubany, Laiglesia and Jiménez.

The judge insists on DNA tests as he thinks there are reasons to suspect Jiménez and Laiglesia were involved in Jubany’s violent death. The family of the deceased and the National Police consider Laiglesia the prime suspect. The judge believes that various symptoms affect Laiglesia. To begin with, I have experienced intermittent The block where Jubany’s body was dumped.

Laiglesia would usually spend the night in that building because the apartment of Careta, Laiglesia’s partner in 2001, was there. on that floor Boxes of the drug Noctamide found, containing benzodiazepines, a psychotropic that has residues in the victim’s body. Also in the same house matches like those found on the roof and that they would have been used to burn parts of Jubany’s body. Laiglesia also fell into conflict with Careta. when both are questioned by the National Police after the crime. There are also phone calls Jubany received from the landline of Careta’s home in the days before the crime, which Laiglesia may have made herself.

Jubany’s murder expired at the end of 2021, when the crime was 20 years old. However, Laiglesia was formally investigated until 2005, when the case was closed. So were the late Careta and Echaguibel. Therefore, crime for Laiglesia and Echaguibel will not be foreseen until 2025.