This Provincial Court related to Madrid Woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her husband During an argument that “takes advantage of physical weakness and unstable health” that prevents the victim from defending himself against him, choked with a plastic bag in his mouth.
The sentence of Section 23 of the Madrid trial, to which EFE has access, follows the verdict of the popular jury in November, which considered the case and considered Verónica CH. guilty of murdering his partner, severe structural deterioration, a history of revascularized ischemic heart disease with triple bypass, and HIV, as well as having multiple fractures as a result of a traffic accident where he needed crutches to walk.
The prosecutor’s office requested 22 years in prison. water seller murder with the aggravation of kinshipthe defense demanded that he be acquitted and, secondly, sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison for manslaughter with high-quality mitigations for drug addiction and excessive delay.
Now the Chamber accuses the accused of murder because he wanted to kill the victim who could not defend himself, and the murder could not be proven. addiction drugs involved in the ability to know what to do.
The Chamber, as the jury said, defendant and victim were an emotional couple They had been living together for several years and, as he stated at the trial, it was not true that he had only gone to her house because he had given her money and drugs in exchange for sex.
According to the sentence’s description, the accused had been with the victim since 3 March 2018, the day before the incident, with the “state of drunkenness that deprived him of Francisco’s physical weakness and dangerous state of health, and of all necessary capacity to react to repel the attack,” and with the intent to “take his life”.
Thus, “Francisco closed his mouth, inserted several plastic bags, fixed them inside with clear adhesive tape, blocked his mouth and nose, prevented him from breathing”, causing his death.