This Supreme Court confirmed the 15-year prison sentence of César Román, known as King of Cachopofrom the 2018 murder of his partner Heidi Paz, whose body he dismembered before his head or limbs were ever revealed.
The Criminal Chamber issued a sentence accessible to EFE this Thursday, rejecting the convict’s appeal against the Madrid High Court of Justice’s decision upholding another State Court for manslaughter. aggravating factors such as consanguinity and gender.
Moreover, In addition to 15 years’ probation, the Department approves compensation of 142,229 euros to Heidi’s children and 100,000 euros to her mother.
César Román and Heidi Paz met in early April 2018 when the convicted man started working at the cider house he ran in Madrid, and a few days later they began an emotional affair that led them to live together.
As early as June, when the victim began to doubt the continuity of their emotional relationship, she left César a note saying she had left home because she needed to think, and then went inside. On the morning of August 5, she called him and went to the address they shared..
Once there, between about six in the morning of August 5 and four in the afternoon, The convict did not accept that he wanted to get away from him and killed him. and although it is not recorded how he did it, the Chamber assures that this was not accidental.
Later, to avoid discovery and thus regardless of the implied disrespect for Heidy’s dead body, the corpse can be identified and Heidy’s cause of death determined. the convicted man began to tear him apart.
Caesar after that He packed the body in a black plastic bag, then a suitcase, and called a taxi to take it to an industrial warehouse in Madrid’s Usera-Villaverde district. leased by a company.
Inside the ship, from 5 to 13 August 2018, again to prevent the identification of Heidi’s body, César, He sprayed her torso with caustic soda and cut off her breasts using a knife. Enumerations are silicone implants that can be used for identification.
On 13 August, the body of the woman whose legs, arms and head and neck had been cut off, and the suitcase containing the mothers were found during the demonstration by the firefighters due to the fire on that ship.
That same day, after learning that the body of the Honduran woman had been found, stopped using the regular phone line and ran away Zaragoza, where she uses different identities to rent a room and get a job as a cook.
Román was arrested on November 16 of that year in Zaragoza, where he lived under a false name and changed his appearance.
Family lawyer Alexis Socias expressed satisfaction with the sentence imposed on EFE and said he hopes Heidi’s body will now be handed over to the family so that he can be sent back to his country of origin, Honduras, and buried. The court rejected this request pending the decision of the high court.
Ana Isabel Peña, attorney for the King of Cachopo, assured the EFE that he was “not surprised” by the Supreme Court decision since then. media case outweighed law enforcement without justice blindfolded“.
Therefore, he announced that he would appeal to the Constitutional Court and, if appropriate, to the European Court of Human Rights for violations of fundamental rights, “because no judicial body in Spain goes beyond established guidelines.”