José Luis Faro Fernandez He was 44 years old when he was killed in the hostel. Mondariz (Pontevedra) where did he take live almost twenty years. The alleged perpetrator of the crime was Miguel Ángel GM, who was then temporarily residing in the same establishment. As forensics would later conclude, it struck him. Between 80 and 90 blades and he carried her while she was still alive to a dreary semi-basement attached to the hostel, where she left him lying on the floor. The victim’s body was found there on the night of Friday, January 22, 2021. The alleged murderer was arrested the next day by the Civil Guard at a hotel in Vigo, the city where he had fled and hidden after the stabbing. Today, more than two years have passed since then, and the case is close to a trial by a popular jury in Pontevedra County Court. The prosecutor has already submitted his provisional indictment: He qualifies the facts as a crime of murder. murderby a combination of extenuating circumstances or mental anomalyand demands that the accused be punished. 17 years in prison.
Police and forensic investigation, the motive for this crime, as stated in the Public Ministry letter, “bad neighborly relations”That he is the accused and his victims of the habit of playing music late at night and first at dawn. A native of the Gargamala community and nicknamed “O Cabra” because of his characteristic greeting style, José Luis, who is very popular in Mondariz, has lived in a room in the annex building of the hostel for 17 years. Next to the restaurant where Michelangelo was. In the weeks leading up to the crime, they were the only guests at the resort.
According to the prosecutor’s office, a few days before the tragic events, the victim got angry and informed the owner of the hostel that the accused was disturbing him today, making a lot of noise, playing music at night and hitting the walls. or repeatedly asked for tobacco. Miguel Ángel learned of the complaint in question, and the public charge sheet continues, he would confront his roommate directly:You ruined me, I’ll pass you by the stone”.
A knife in the bazaar
The crime occurred between the afternoon of January 17, when José Luis was last seen alive, and the night of January 22, when the body was found. Days ago, the accused had purchased a kitchen knife from a market in Ponteareas, which, as revealed by the establishment’s security cameras, was found by forensics to be “compatible” with all the injuries sustained by the victim. The murder scene was the victim’s room in the hostel., where he received “all” or at least “some” of the stab wounds. Due to the way the deadly attack occurred, unable to “escape or defend himself” from his murderer, who was dying and still alive, he was transported to the semi-basement where his body was found.
The cause of death of this Mondariz resident is a hypovolemic shock with bleeding external and internal secondary to the “multiple wounds” he received with the knife: An autopsy performed on the body revealed 80 to 90 wounds with these features. In addition to a prison sentence, the prosecutor demands a measure and compensation that prohibits meeting and approaching relatives of the deceased up to the second degree.
A handwritten letter to the court asking to be released: “I will not run”
Miguel Angel remains GM Incarcerated since January 25, 2021. The defense attorney filed for conditional release both in the Ponteareas court investigating the case and before the Pontevedra County Court, where he was sent with his appeal, but failed. a letter “handwritten” by the accused himself – Guardianship over it at least until that date Galician Foundation for Adult Custody (FUNGA)– demanded his release, claiming that he had no financial means or connections to escape. Predictably, the judges upheld pre-trial detention, both because they thought it existed. flight risk due to lack of family or business roots, as well as the seriousness of the facts or the possibility of destroying sources of evidence.
One of the issues that the prosecution’s indictment stands on is the murder suspect’s Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenic psychosis since 2009it actually led to several applications to psychiatry fields in 2018, 2019 and 2020. devoid of disease awareness and therefore, he did not fulfill the prescribed chronic medical treatment in a necessary and sufficient manner,” states in the aforementioned article, in which he stated that he could act with a crime at the time the crime was committed. partial decrease in your voluntary capacity -who controls his impulses- but without recording the losses in their intellectual facultiesIt allows us to distinguish whether what is done is “right or wrong”.