Oviedo Court reduces ‘stiletto rapist’ by two and a half years, enforcing ‘only yes is yes’ law

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While the reductions of sentences for the implementation of the “only yes is yes” law had just begun in Spain, Félix Vidal was known as the lawyers of Anido. “the stiletto rapist”They warned LA NUEVA ESPAÑA of the Prensa Ibérica group: they sought benefits for their customers. And so it was. The 3rd Division of the Oviedo State Court reduced the prison sentence to two and a half years for Vidal Anido, who was sentenced in 2019 to 13 years in prison for sexually assaulting a disabled woman in an Oviedo hostel in 2017.

The judicial decision of 13 March 2023 accepts a reconsideration of the sentence imposed under the sexual freedom law. from now on he will face ten and a half years in prison instead of the first thirteen years.legal sources informed Europa Press.

While maintaining the absolute disqualification warrant, the judge reduces the prohibition of approach and communication, originally set as fourteen years, to eleven years and six months, and also imposes a special disqualification for any professional occupation for a period of fifteen years and six months. . activity involving regular and direct contact with minors.

Suspect He was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for a crime in 2019. sexual assault With penetration into a woman with 65% intellectual disability fined 180 euros for the author of a minor offense of theft. Despite appealing the sentence, the Supreme Court (TS) rejected the petition in 2021.

According to the prosecution’s statement, the events took place in December 2017 when two convicted men, Vidal Anido and a woman using the acronym MAPF, were living with the victim in a rented apartment in Oviedo.They are guided to make friends and become aware of what they call a disability.

Because of the relationship with him, the defendants knew that the girl’s grandfather lived in a nursing home in Laviana and held the old man’s bank record and his authorized signature, from which he could freely use his money.

accused took advantage of this situation to request the victim to withdraw money from the account and when he refused, he threatened her with death and tried to violently attack her, so that in the end, out of fear and in the company of the accused, the affected woman withdrew a total of 1,700 euros from her grandfather’s account.

On December 22, 2017 at around 12:30 The victim was sleeping in her room in the communal apartment when the accused entered and sexually assaulted her.He also said that if he said anything to her, he would kill her.

The woman did not report the facts, fearing that the accused would carry out her death threats. However, that afternoon the defendant forced her with threats to accompany him to the town of Moreda and physically assaulted the victim there until he managed to escape, notifying the Civil Guards who had transported him, until he managed to escape from the apartment and a nearby shop. After the Álvarez Buylla Hospital in Mieres reported the harassment and threats to the police.

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