Change in player’s defense Luis Lorenzo and his wife Arancha Palomino. The lawyer who has been defending the couple since their arrest last year said: poison to death He gave up defending the couple to his elderly aunt in order to keep their assets, Prensa Ibérica’s investigative and events channel CASO ABIERTO has learned.
In a letter sent to the Arganda del Rey (Madrid) investigative court number 9, accessed by this media on September 6, the Asturian lawyer said: Francisco Perez Platas He informs the judge investigating the death of María Isabel Suárez that he is leaving the case after problems arose “irreconcilable differences” with Lorenzo and Palomino preventing him from continuing to defend the pair. The prestigious criminal lawyer is asking the court to “encourage” his current clients to appoint a new lawyer or, if this is not possible, to appoint a lawyer ex officio.
case file
The change comes just two months after the case took a radical turn in favor of the defense of Lorenzo and his wife. On 23 June, two forensic doctors appointed by the investigating judge concluded in a report: “There is no objective data” It was stated that the actor and his partner “poisoned the old woman with cadmium and manganese”, who died at the couple’s home on June 28, 2021. The results contradict the woman’s initial autopsy and the Civil Guard’s investigations. In light of these new results, Lorenzo and Palomino’s attorney requested the file Case before summer.
Experts made this decision after examining the woman’s toxicological analysis. cadmium and manganese concentrations In the blood (200 and 20 times (respectively above normal levels) and the deceased’s medical history after traces of four antipsychotic drugs were also found in his system.
Postmortem diffusion
“The forensic physician who performed the autopsy concluded acute heavy metal poisoning only by taking into account the examination results. blood sample (of the victim), whose reference values have been determined living adultsThese results “may be due to the fact that postmortem results vary depending on the location where the sample was taken, the time between death and sample collection, and the cases of death,” the coroners added in their report. postmortem diffusion and redistribution”.
“In case the old woman dies from acute poisoning,” experts told the judge.woman’s body would present injuries to the respiratory and digestive tract”, something that does not occur. Moreover chronic poisoning excluded (they would slowly poison it), because if so “residues of these two heavy metals should be present in the soil” hair, lungs, kidneys, liver, etc.”.
Their conclusions are relevant because they refute the main evidence supported so far by the accusations against Lorenzo and Palomino (i.e. the initial autopsy performed on the victim) and agree with the defense that Pérez Platas has been pursuing from the beginning. Just a month after the actor and his partner were arrested, the lawyer stated that their client was innocent and “there now.” Scientific studies “This could explain the presence of heavy metals in a woman’s body through processes that occur naturally after death.”