Man accused related to kill his wife inside Tenerife on 11 May 2022, angel Martinez, denied This Monday, May 8, tip him nine stab wounds Together kitchen knife And claimed to have hammered nailsBut accidentallysliding on a patio with water on the floor.
in this way Martinez, 84 years oldaforementioned does not know who inflicted the remaining eight stab wounds on the victim. He pointed out that the aggression took place first with the longitudinal round-tipped scissors and then with the aforementioned knife. after one of the countless arguments He said he called out to Clotilde Rodríguez when they lived together for 56 years. “son of a bitch” and I gave it to him a spanking.
The reason for this conflict was: Ángel blamed his partner this would take money from the bank to give to his youngest daughterrepeatedly defined as “drug addict”, that he stole a lot of money from them to pay for his addiction. The events took place in the house they rented in the district around 16:00. Los Cristianos, in the municipality of Arona (Tenerife).
Inside first session judgment with the jury for murder, Angel offered testimony that was at times chaotic and contradictory. He always accused the victim of despising him and treating him as “zero to the left”, not treating him the way he deserved, instilling in his two daughters their dislike for him and even possessing him. sexual intercourse with other men.. And in this more than half a century of marriage, he admitted to physically attacking Clotilde only twice.
The defendant confirmed that he started the relationship 58 years ago and that they got married in 1961. He described living with his wife as “deadly, at worst, hell”. To the prosecutor’s first question, Raquel Arranz commented, “My daughters despised me, they didn’t even kiss me because their mother told them I was bad.”
“We used to argue all the time, and when we argued, he wanted the town to know about it. He would open all the windows and start shouting,” he said. He also spoke of his wife’s alleged disrespect towards him and his mother when he called him and his mother a “son of a bitch” and his sisters a “whore” even though they weren’t. However, she admitted that Clotilde had responded to her claiming that she was “a prostitute sister and another lesbian.”
Another of the causes of confrontation that lasted for years, according to the accused, occurred while he was out fishing in Newfoundland. banned from going to workbecause “I earned enough, but he went to work; he went wherever he wanted, I didn’t know what he was doing, but I thought he would.”
He admitted that he had been separated from Clotilde for three years and that he had come to report her several times, “but they had only summoned him to court once.”
He used the phrase “The one from the sea gave me a stick instead of showing compassion” to the prosecutor’s questions. “He slapped me a few times, he raised his hand when he wanted to,” he said. In one of these complaints, she stated that her husband did not cook and make her bed, and that she did not change her sheets for five months once. He also assured the Public Department representative, lawyers, jurors, and the judge that he had once followed her and found her with another man in an apartment, but this time he did not attack her.
His distrust of his wife reached such a point that he once took a test. DNA to find out if he is really the biological father of his youngest daughter. Ángel explained that genetic analysis confirmed his paternity.
Ángel and Clotilde spent six months and the rest of the year in Galicia in their apartment on Avenida de Los Playeros in Los Cristianos, where the crime was committed. The alleged perpetrator of the murder said that in the ten days before the events, one of his ears ached day and night. He admitted that he was helpless for the situation in question, but never thought it was a serious or incurable disease he would die for it.
He admitted that he wanted to take his own life and throw himself off the fifth floor of the Los Cristianos building, where he spent his long vacations. He said to the members of the jury, “I called my nephew and said goodbye, this is over, I’m leaving, I’m confused, your aunt is crushing me.”
He stated that he was going to go up to the fifth floor, but he remembered his wife and decided to say goodbye to her. After sitting on the couch and telling his wife that he couldn’t sleep, he asked why he was going to the bank. The woman replied to this to get money. She said she didn’t need it because the flat was about 1,000 euros. And it was Ángel who told Clotilde that he went to the branch to get money for “your drug-addicted daughter who stole our entire lives.” According to the accused, Clotilde, lying on the ground, sat down and told Ángel not to name her daughter that way, calling her “son of a bitch” and eventually slapping her on the cheek.
The defendant took a pair of round-tipped scissors and plunged them into his neck. The suspect, who is alleged to be the perpetrator of the murder, first stated that almost no blood came out of him, then he explained that the blood did not spurt but was stained after he injured himself.
He later admitted that the two struggled for a while until the victim escaped into an inner courtyard. Ángel Martínez said that she went to the kitchen, took a knife and followed him.
deadly attack
The person involved in the fatal attack on the luminous well described the incident as “I was the one who slipped, I stumbled, I hit him, I put my hand on his neck and we both fell”. the floor was supposedly wet. “As you fall, I saw his eyes open and he was dead.; Face down,” he pointed. In another contradiction, he pointed out: “I did not stab him with a knife; I was going to defend myself against him because I thought he was carrying the scissors.” “I don’t remember sticking the knife into him for nothing; I never let go of the knife until I cut my arm.. I wanted to die with my wife,” said Martinez.
At the beginning of the hearing, during the presentation of the defenses by the different parties, the Prosecutor’s Office, lawyer Canary Equality Institute and agreed to request 22 years of solicitor for private prosecution prison for Martinez.
The defense attorney is seeking acquittal “because it could not be established that the accused committed the events.” According to the defense, Martínez “a ogre“, but “anchored in the past, but that doesn’t mean he was abusive, and there’s no evidence of that in the case.”
On the afternoon of the events, the man of eighty stabbed the round-tipped scissors into his wife’s neck nine times. However, as he could not achieve his goal, he went to the kitchen and took a 19-centimeter knife there. At this time, the affected person got up from the sofa and went to a patio where he thought he might better take shelter. Ángel probably went there and stabbed him seven times in the left side. Many reached the heart and lungs. According to the prosecutor’s account of the attack, the victim must have died within minutes.
According to Arranz, there was treason because the victim had no real possibility of defense, because the first attack was taken while the woman was lying down and asleep; that is, they are sure of the space of the house they rent for a few months to spend their holidays every year. Christians.