Second Division of the Valencian State Court sentenced 54 years in prison for the suspect who tried to kill 6 people by setting the house on fire It is a night where they sleep to take revenge on one of them, his stepdaughter, and his partner with whom he has enmity. Court, author of six attempted murder chargesfor those who appreciate the extenuating factor of drunkenness and the aggravating factor of kinship in one of them.
things happened Around three o’clock in the morning of 14 October 2020, when the accused drove a few bottles of gasoline to his wife’s daughter and partner’s house in Valencia. The prosecution demanded that the defendants be sentenced to 93 years in prison. At the hearing held last September, the defendant claimed that he returned from the barbecue trying to justify that the police found him in the early morning of the fire barefoot and with a burnt foot.
According to the court’s statement, the man, who knew that his action could end the lives of other people living in the house, sprayed diesel on the first floor door of the building and left a trace of gasoline below. stairs to exit. He then set the fuel on fire and started a fire. caused serious injuries to residents and multiple damages inside.
The now convicted person also set fire to his stepdaughter’s husband’s car. Hours before the incident, he had threatened to burn their house down over the phone, but none of the residents believed him, so they went to bed and Many were asleep when the flames began..
The person who set the fire had threatened to burn the house where his stepdaughter, with whom he was hostile, lived.
Four of the victims suffered burns of varying degrees, including a seven-year-old boy who burned his face, hands, back, arms and chest, which required and had to undergo emergency hospitalization. More than 13 surgeries to graft skin.
The Office also finds that while prohibiting the perpetrator of the fire from approaching below 500 meters and communicating by any means with any of the six victims, he cannot reside in Valencia for ten years.
In addition, the convicted person must pay those injured by civil liability in compensation for injuries sustained in the fire, ranging from 2,600 to 350,000 euros, up to a total of 715,000 euros.
this Damages at home and on the farm It exceeded 16,500 euros. According to TSJCV sources, the sentence has not been finalized and an appeal can be made to the Civil and Criminal Division of the Valencia Community Supreme Court of Justice.