Badajoz County Court, A man accused of trying to cut off his ex-wife’s hands in Almendralejo (Badajoz) sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison in December 2020, after refusing to continue the emotional affair. Victim due to serious assaultpartially lost functionality in both arms.
The room man thinks “fully liable” for injury offense due to the uselessness of a principal memberwith conditions kinship for gender reasons and factors that aggravate the acttogether another precautionary violation, because when he assaulted his ex-wife a restraining order due to a previous incident of violence. When sentencing, the court considers the following: lightening confession For both offenses, as requested by the defendant’s defense.
Sentenced to prison for injury 10 years and 6 months in prisonFor 16 years, the victim was prohibited from approaching or communicating with him at a distance of less than 500 meters from his home or workplace. Meanwhile, he is sentenced to 9 months in prison for violation. The prosecution and the special prosecutor’s office demanded 11 years in prison for the first and 11 months for the second.
Also, convicted will have to compensate the victim’s physical and moral damage with 148,633,16 euros.
Court accredited Despite the fact that the attacker had a restraining order in force for the victim on December 26, 2020, he entered his house after breaking the door violently at around 23:10. The man went into the bedroom of the woman who had been woken by loud noises and, with great aggression, violently grabbed her by the hair and forcibly dragged her into the street, demanding that they continue the relationship.
at that moment, He slashed both of his wrists multiple times, using the knife he was carrying “with the aim of undermining his physical integrity and as an expression of his domination and subjugation.”to arrive the victim loses consciousness due to the severity of the injuries sustained. The woman took 425 days to recover after a long period of highly complex medical-surgical treatment and specific functional rehabilitation.
At the hearing held behind closed doors at the Badajoz Provincial Court on April 27, the convict admitted that his ex-wife had seriously injured his hands with a knife, but gave assurances he did this in a state of outburst of jealousy and under the influence of alcohol.
The sentence is not final and can be appealed to the Civil and Criminal Division of the Extremadura High Court of Justice (TSJEx).