Popular jury trying man accused of murdering his partner at dawn in Alicante Tribunal christmas day 2021 inside Elche The subject of the verdict will be taken this afternoon to consider whether the defendant is guilty or not. The fourth session of the case ended on Thursday morning with the announcement of the charges, and the defense and all parties maintained their initial positions. Private investigation conducted by both the Prosecutor’s Office and the prosecutor’s office Yolanda’s family and popular accusations Generalitat and Elche Neighborhood Women’s Association They demanded justice for 25-year-old girl was shot in the head and killed and they requested a guilty verdict for the defendant because they had no doubt that it was Francisco NM who fatally shot Yolanda in the head at the defendant’s home. Los Palmerales neighborhood.
Just the opposite, defense lawyer Moisés Candela Sabater, He maintained his client was innocent, reminded the popular jury that the murder weapon did not contain the defendant’s DNA or fingerprints, and questioned the police investigation for failing to fully address the possibility that the crime had been committed, among other issues. by another person, as stated by the defendant in his statement.
The prosecutor of the case emphasized in his report that all the pieces of the puzzle confirm that Francisco executed Yolanda in the early morning hours of December 25, 2021, and that he has no doubts about the authorship, although he was not a direct witness to the murder. He stated that this was a malicious murder, a single bullet hit Yolanda’s temple and she was unable to react in self-defense.
Smuggler is missing
The gun was found hidden in the house of a drug trafficker from Elche. He did not attend the hearing because his location could not be determined by the police.According to the representative of the Public Ministry, who emphasized that the defendant’s previous behavior betrayed him. Thus, he stated that he went to get gas hours before the crime and that he did so after killing Yolanda. He asked for help from the neighborhood to remove the old clothes in his house and burn them.. According to the prosecutor, the police concluded that the young man was talking about old clothes. he was talking about the body However, since he could not get help, he had to leave the house, leaving Yolanda’s body there.
The prosecutor added that when he left his house, he told many neighbors on the street that he was leaving because he “killed the girl”. The witness who said this at the time was unhappy at Thursday’s hearing, but the prosecutor reminded the court that he was a friend of the defendant.
On the other hand, the accusations question whether this claim is true. three kilos of cocaine The defendant is at the house claiming responsibility for third parties who went to steal the drugs.
The accusations also claimed that the victim and the defendant had a romantic relationship and that the situation aggravating gender discrimination in premeditated murder emerged. The prosecutor stated:They had an asymmetrical relationship with no equality“and the charges are Francisco’s He became very jealous and did not allow Yolanda to go out with her friends.
special prosecution attorney Isabel QuirantEmphasizing that the defendant was content to say that he was not the perpetrator of the crime throughout the two-year investigation, he drew attention to the version presented at the hearing and his behavior in which he did not raise his head or sob during the hearings. At the beginning of his testimony, he responds to the enactment of a learned script to ensure that the jury does not declare him guilty. “An innocent person thinks and surrenders”The lawyer drew attention by implying that the defendant fled from the day of the crime until he was arrested on December 30 after opening fire on the police.
The lawyer also asked the jury to find the defendant guilty. Get justice for Yolanda’s deathHe has two children aged 9 and 4 and provide comfort to family members young woman.
If the defense lawyer is Moises Candela Sabater, He denied that Francisco had a romantic relationship with Yolanda, even though family and a friend said so, and questioned whether the police could find the decedent’s phone from which calls were made after his death, or that they were trying to find him. Extracting fingerprints or DNA from the bullet casing collected at the scene.
The lawyer also denied that he planned the murder and emphasized that Yolanda was going to party with her sister that night but changed her mind when it started raining. He said the following about gasoline purchases: There is no evidence that he offered anyone money to dispose of the body. Stating that the only thing that is certain is that it was not used and that the fuel was generally used to cut cocaine, he stated that his client said that the gun found by the young woman was ordered by the drug trafficker in his house. shot found.
On the other hand, referring to a phone conversation between this trafficker and her husband in prison, he stated that the woman stated that Francisco was not the perpetrator of the crime. Moisés Candela questioned why the police did not attach importance to this conversation or to the calls made by the said merchant in the early morning hours of the day of the crime, now on trial, to investigate the possibility of another authorship.