HE Supreme Court upheld a prison sentence of 18 and a half years for Dutch ex-sailor with kill your partner inside February 2020 after stabbed and slit her throat at the real estate office in Teulada-Moraira (Alicante) for, later, throw the corpse in the trashAccording to Efe Agency. Supreme Court of Justice He had commuted the 22-year prison sentence given to him by Court of Alicante Part of the objection made by the defense counsel was sentenced to 18 years in prison for ignoring the proven aggravating circumstance.Francisco Miguel Galiana Botella.
Sexist violence crime occurred at dawn February 16, 2020 after the accused and the victim, Romanian national and 36 years oldThey got into an argument out of jealousy. That night the prisoner was looking for the victim. various entertainment venues from the town where he saw her with other men. Shortly after, they both left the building and went to the real estate company run by the former sailor. a big knife and went into the bathroom to stab him in the back.
The man who turned his back hit him. 15 stab wounds More in various parts of the body, the last to slit your throatall”surprisingly“and” takes away the woman’s ability to reciprocate and defend herself, considering the punishment proven. Two days later, the body was found in a container where the accused had thrown it. The former sailor voluntarily appeared before the Civil Guard and confessed to the crime. .
The decision is the old sailor’s “As a result of his physical domination, he took the woman’s life. for exercising on him and seeing him with other men on the night of the events”.
first sentence
The Alicante Court sentenced him to 22 years and 6 months in prison. The crime of killing by treason and cruelty with the easing of confessionhowever, the Valencian Commonwealth High Court of Justice reduced the sentence to four years, understanding that there was no persecution.
And now the Supreme Court upholds the sentence, because there was treason and there was no abuse of superiority, because “the rebalancing of the situation after the victim’s turn while being stabbed in the back, or a real war or war, but what is produced is a brutally aggressive continuation with a knife. even when the victim is on the ground, he continues to slit his throat”.
Therefore, “whether the initial stabbing was necessarily fatal, strong and surprising enough to block a defense (from behind) In front of the attacker, thanks to that initial stabbing and the stupefaction it caused, facilitates the rest of the following knives received without the possibility of any real defense”.
At the trial, the convict admitted that he acted out of jealousy and showed signs of remorse, adding that he had committed “a very, very serious crime” and that “he should never have done it”.