The County Court condemned five years in prison Lithuanian woman of Russian descent. strangled his 78-year-old mother with a rope While relaxing on a bed at her home in Torrevieja. The crime was due to be tried by a popular jury in Elche at the end of last July, but the Prosecution and defense, which initially requested 26 years in prison, attorney Roberto Sanchez Martinez, They reached an agreement of eligibility, and the sentence was reduced to five years by changing the murder charge to homicide and applying the incomplete mental abnormality defense, the mitigation of late confession, and the aggravation of kinship.
Facts proved in the sentence given by the head of the jury, Francisco Xavier Saravia Occurred in June 2021 Torrevieja.
25 meters of rope
The defendant, a Russian-born but Lithuanian national, decided to end the life of a woman. mother 78 years old, at the address on Sal de Torrevieja street where they live. He considered strangling her with a rope and went to a hospital on the afternoon of June 2nd. hardware store It is located on the same street. Bought one in this establishment 25 meters long rope and 5 millimeters thick and on the left.
The next day, June 3, he and his mother were drinking vodka on the terrace of the house. Then the mother lay on her mother’s bed. bedroom to relax and this incident was committed soon after, between five and six in the afternoon.
The accused took advantage of the fact that his mother was married. under the influence of alcoholShe took the rope she had bought from the hardware store and entered her mother’s bedroom. Immediately afterwards, he said, “To use the rope as a choking tool, with the intention of ending his life, He strangled her until she took her own life», as stated in the conviction.
The sentence states that he caused his death from “acute pulmonary edema secondary to mechanical asphyxia and respiratory failure, possibly due to suffocation and obstruction of the breathing holes.”
bloodstains
Police teams found the blood-stained rope used to strangle the accused’s mother in the living room of the house, during the search conducted by the Civil Guards after the crime was detected in the victim’s home.
Likewise, the wrapping of the rope bought from the hardware store was interfered with in the garbage container and there was a vodka bottle given to the victim in the kitchen of the house.
mental illness
The sentence shows that the accused “suffered during the commission of the crimes”. mental illness, psychotic breakdiminishing their intellectual and willful capacities”, but not “wholly nullifying them”.
The accused woman, who was released pending trial, went to the courthouse. City of Justice in Elche She appeared on July 27, along with her lawyer, Roberto Sánchez, to sign the agreement protocol with the prosecution, plead guilty to her mother’s drowning, and waive any appeal against the sentence.