public jury who attended a man’s trial this week accused of ending his wife’s life In May of last year in Los Cristianos, South Tenerife, announced today responsible murder evaluated that the victim had committed the crime by treason before he had a chance to defend himself.
In giving the sentence, the jury aggravating factors and gender violence.
Specifically, the version of the woman lying on the ground in the afternoon when her husband first attacked her with scissors, causing multiple injuries to her neck, but not fatal, is supported.
So later she went to the kitchen and took a large knife in her hand, while trying to shut the door with her husband’s power, she took refuge on the porch in a futile effort. The knife inflicted seven stab wounds to the lung and heart, this time fatal.
The charges call for 22 years in prison, 10 years probation and 100,000 euros, while the girls’ defense raises this to 112,000 euros for each of the girls. the defense believes they should be paid 10 years in prison and their daughters 31,800 euros.
The Prosecutor’s Office wanted it to be accepted that he acted treacherously and that it was a case of gender violence, as accepted by the jury.
behaving alienated and Alleviation of depositing 86,000 Euros in court it will face legal liability if it is concluded that this money was not given voluntarily but by order of the Court.
The accused and the victim have been married for over fifty years. and they spent half the year in Vigo and the rest in Los Cristianos, south of Tenerife, where the crime was committed.
Some of what happened was seen by the upstairs neighbor who was observing the bloody woman trying to close the patio door. and the man with the “evil” face comes in with a knife in his hand. This neighbor said it was common for the prisoner to scream, but attributed this to him suffering from chronic deafness.
The jury also based its decision on the expert reports that came to support the prosecutor’s explanation of how the murder was committed.
According to experts, The man suffered from a paranoid disorder that resulted in him being narcissistic, suspicious, insecure, and misogynistic. and being prone to violent outbursts, but they all agreed that these personality traits in no way meant that he had no self-control and knew what he was doing very well.
One of the girls stopped talking to her mother for 21 years because she didn’t understand how she made the decision to return to her father after what had happened, and they both reconnected until six months before her death. , on a recommendation, the psychological one who still treats him. In addition to beatings and contempt, her daughters were constantly harassed by the father’s insults.
The underage boy was in constant contact with him as he feared what happened that afternoon would eventually happen.
The two sisters reported that the abuse continued and they had to call the police. National Police almost every day but the agents couldn’t do anything because The woman refused to file a complaint. and they were barred from entering the house.
The victim lived in panic for years and was subjected to beatings, mental and physical abuse for any reason, as revealed in the trial. Their daughters were deceived by the accused as a “true beast”, “despicable being” and “a abusive usual”.
In his testimony on the first day, the man denied stabbing the woman and admitted only one of the seven injuries, but assured that both were due to falling while fighting on the porch.