On the night of Sunday, February 5 of this year, Ángel Rodríguez da Costa brutally murdered his ex-wife, Beatriz Lijó Gesteira, in front of their two children from an already broken marriage in Baiona. Despite his initial silence, he finally confessed. he did with ax that he threw it into a mountain with a retrievable kitchen knife to be used as proof of accusation on his next escape and when the body was found near him. Forensic investigation conducted by the owner three months after the incident Violence Against Women Court Vigo is already at a very advanced stage. Relatives and friends of the victim, civilian security guards who played a key role in this investigation, and local or national police, who somehow intervened in the case, also testified in court. there was one yesterday new reference day where a woman appears in addition to a police officer psychologist prior to the crime, when his wrongful conduct led a Family Court to withdraw the case custody with regard to minors, he was present at the defendant’s office.
In the private sector, this professional He only had one interview with this math teacher. Since his arrest after the crime, he continues to be held in pre-trial detention awaiting trial. According to legal sources regarding his statement yesterday, what Ángel talked about in that interview was “not normal” for the psychologist. In his manifestations, he conveyed to her the following ideas: Everyone was against him, from the students he taught, harassing him with his words, scratching his car, to his lawyers and judges… In this doctor’s opinion, the ideas he conveyed to him were characteristic of some kind of disorder, a “paranoia”, and the doctor advised him to take medication from the doctor. psychiatric caresomething that the man opposed, he was completely unwilling to both any therapy and medication.
The truth is, what this psychologist is stating contradicts what the psychiatrists who treated Ángel Rodríguez in the 1940s analyzed. Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo after being arrested they did not see any mental effects and then, as he signed, they discharged him from the hospital. Imelga forensics, fit to declare. In this regard, the defense counsel explains that he has recently offered to file a lawsuit against his client. psychologist The person who wanted to present it in the judicial process, but confessed to the crime, conveyed to the lawyer that he refused to make an assessment regarding these qualifications through his family. “He doesn’t want to, he refuses, he says he’s not crazy”says the lawyer.
in Ourense
Also yesterday was the last Ourense national police He said that Ángel Rodríguez has not yet testified in court to describe the moment he surrendered at the police station in the city of As Burgas. Three other agents present that morning testified earlier. The murder suspect left his children with their father, took his mobile phone and crime ax from him, then drove there and badly parked in front of the police station, got inside, sat on the ground and took it. take off his shoes He didn’t say a word. Despite the man’s silence, as he left the car keys in a box at the entrance, it wasn’t long before the agents realized that the man in front of them was behaving so strangely that he was the fugitive the Civil Guards were looking for – they already knew he had posted it. search and seizure request– for killing his ex-wife the night before.
With a confession and a pile of evidence pointing directly to it, what this legal process cannot rely on, other than being caught by surprise, is the ax, the main weapon of the crime. The defendant said he threw it into a mountain in the Tomiño region without specifying the location in detail. The judge finally decided not to reconfigure to look for the gun..