A 40-year-old British man charged with murder in Rojales His 21-year-old countryman, whom he has known since childhood, was declared innocent in a public jury trial that began on Monday. Hearing at Elche and will last until Thursday. The defendant denied that he was the material author of the stab wound in the neck of the victim, and held the owner of the house where the events took place on 1 October 2020 responsible for the attack.
The prosecution is seeking prison sentences of up to 16 years initially for the accused. murder and theft crimesfor blaming him stealing a bag to the landlord’s partner before he goes to flee. While the special prosecutor’s office, led by the deceased young man’s mother, requested 15 years in prison for manslaughter, the defense only denied responsibility for the stabbing and acquitted him. This provisional qualification will be retained or changed, depending on the verdict of the popular jury, which is scheduled for next Thursday in the Seventh Part of the Trial, originally located at Elche.
The Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor also stated that the defendant’s compensation of 100,000 euros to the young man’s mother and the father, in addition to paying 688 euros to the owner of the stolen bag with the same amount.
Before the accused is questioned, Forensic lawyer of the Jury Court He read the indictment and defense minutes. According to the prosecutor’s statement, the accused shared the same house with the accused. Urbanization of Orihuela CostaDespite the aggression Rojales. On September 30, 2020, always according to the accusations, the accused and the victim went to a recreational casino in Ciudad Quesada and then moved into a house in Rojales owned by a British couple they met at that resort.
deadly controversy
During the stay in the said house in Rojales and consuming alcohol and drugs all afternoon According to the prosecutor’s office, during the argument that broke out at dawn on October 1, he slit his partner’s throat, which resulted in his death.
According to the Public Ministry’s indictment, the man would then enter the owners’ room and take the woman’s purse, which was worth 688 euros.
To the prosecutor’s questions in the case, the defendant stated that he had known the 21-year-old victim since he was about 10 years old, ever since he went home to England, and that he was very friendly with his younger brother. He had been living in his home in the town of Villamartín in Orihuela Costa for several weeks when the events occurred. «I had problems in England And he asked if he could come with me because he didn’t want to go to jail, and I said yes,” explained the defendant.
According to the defendant’s account of what happened on the day his childhood friend died, they both left the house they lived in. Orihuela Costa and they traveled in the accused’s vehicle “to buy them both a hundred grams of hash”. Then they left the car at a car wash and got into a car as they had time. Game room in Ciudad Quesada urbanization of Rojales. There, they met a British citizen and his partner, whose house they were staying at shortly after.
The owner of the house there was cocaine and according to the accused they went to his house to consume there. Hours passed, and on the morning of October 1, 2020, between half past one and half past two, the deadly attack occurred. The defendant stated at the hearing that he bought the house from the owner. Two grams of cocaine per 100 pounds and after consuming it, they offered him marijuana in exchange for more “coke” because they ran out of money. The three of them were in the kitchen, and according to the accused, the victim got angry with the owner for taking a knife to cut a larger piece of marijuana, and threw him three punches. According to the defendants, both they were drunk He stabbed the 21-year-old man who went out into the street and collapsed on the pavement, killing the 21-year-old man from blood loss by being affected by his carotid artery.
On the other hand, both the prosecutor’s office and the special prosecutor’s office claim that the friend was the perpetrator of the stabbing, while the friend also claimed that he ran away from the house for fear of being attacked by the landlord.
The interrogation of the accused was interrupted at 15:00 at the Elche Courthouse and his statement is scheduled to be taken this afternoon.