“I was full of blood”he remembered Natalia MR, accused of killing her ex-boyfriend in what became known as the La Puebla crimeIn the session on Monday afternoon, the other defendant said, Augustine M.A.., had threatened to kill the victim, Juan Manuelwho was once the young woman’s partner and Burnt body found inside car In the summer of 2021. They hit his head with a wrench, ran over him, put him in a car while he was seriously injured, and burned him alive.. According to 20-year-old Natalia, Agustín is the culprit. Because she accidentally ran over Juanmi, but she claimed that it was Agustín who set the car on fire.
Fifth Division of the Regional Court of Murcia, CartagenaThis was the scene where the trial into the death began on Monday Juan Manuel. They are sitting on the bench The two suspects who ended this man’s life: Agustín and Natalia. Prosecutor wants higher sentences 69 years in prison: 35 for him, 34 for him. While Agustín claims that the crime was planned by Natalia, Natalia’s defense emphasizes that the young woman was a victim of sexist violence.That Agustín treated her badly. They blame each other.
Natalia, who only wanted to answer the questions of her lawyer Antonio Casado Mena after the lunch break, gave the following assurance: Agustín felt “hatred” for Juanmi “even before he came into your life.”
“I took a shower 4-5 times to get rid of the blood.”
“Juanmi and I never stopped talking: we called each other”said the young woman. “When I ended my relationship with Juanmi, who had been with him for four years misplaced“I didn’t know where I would be,” he said.
“It made me sad not to be with him”
She stayed with the man who was her ex-girlfriend on the day of the crime. She admitted that Agustín called her several times on her mobile phone. She met him that night “to talk, to be together.” They met at his house and left. Going to a bar “to buy tobacco”. “And we stayed there for a while,” he commented. “He and I weren’t together, but it’s true that he talked to my family and me It made me sad that I couldn’t be with him; until her sister called her and told her that Agustín was looking for her at her door.”
Agustín “came with a crazy face, he was driving”‘ she remembered. “Seeing the situation, I put myself between the two and Agustín approached us.” The fight that grew between two people ended with “punches and kicks”. He took the car keys and drove off.
“I get in the car, they get in, they go screaming all the way,” he said. According to the young woman, they were two men who were constantly hitting each other. He even claims that he fell to the ground to avoid seeing anything while the men were beating each other. That he wanted to leave there “selfishly”. “And I was going to leave them both there.”, Confessed. “But Agustín got into my car,” he explained.
“He gets in the back, like in the middle seat. I’m driving the car, he yells at me. My intention was to get out of there,” he said. The location was “rural, you could barely see anything.” He also added, “I have five diopters in each eye, I wear glasses and contact lenses.” So he accidentally hits Juanmi while driving while Agustín yells at him: “I hit him with my car”.
He noticed that between him and Agustín they put Juanmi in the back of the vehicle. “Agustín was feeling a little bad too, apparently Juanmi had hit him and he couldn’t talk,” he said. He emphasized that it was Agustín who set the car on fire.
“I was afraid he might kill me, just like he did Juanmi.”said the young woman. “I showered four or five times to get the blood out.” Five or six hours later, the police arrived.
Augustine’s statement
At one-twenty in the afternoon, accompanied by a facilitator, he began to testify: Augustine. The boy, who is considered to have a 43% disability (“there are things I don’t understand,” he admits), is a part of his relationship with Natalia. “it was fine”, but “he told me what to do”. If I hadn’t he would have “been blushing” and “made threats against me.”
“The night Juan Manuel died, I received a phone call: ‘Agustín, let me do it my way’. “I say this clearly,” the defendant emphasized.
The day the crime was committed risehe assured. He then asked Natalia’s relative “for a wrench to open a bank house, because my mother threw us out of the house,” and the couple thought: crouch. Now the woman on trial put this device in her bag.
Hours later, according to Agustín’s testimony, Natalia left with Juanmi and he went to La Puebla to look for them. According to the defendant, at two o’clock in the morning he called her to go to an isolated place where the young woman was with the man who would later be killed. I felt jealousy, Confessed. and I believe it Natalia provoked the meeting so that both her boyfriend and his ex got into a fight.
And they crashed into each other, then got into the car with Natalia behind the wheel. However “He didn’t want to go to the hospital”As Juanmi claims, wounded. He stopped the vehicle elsewhere and started a fight again. “Natalia was the reason, of course,” he said. “I remained ‘pasao’ until he took action. Juan Manuel went as far as he could. He drives, and I stay behind, almost unconscious,” he recalled. He assured that Natalia was Chasing the victim with a caruntil he ran over it. He also claims that he was the person who set fire to the vehicle after placing the body in the vehicle.
When Agustín saw the car burning, he remembered: “he was in a state of shock”. “I never, and I will say it very clearly in this room, did not want to end Juan Manuel’s life, and I say that.” He admitted that he changed his statement “because he wanted to protect her” until he realized: “He used me to end Juan Manuel’s life”.
What does the prosecutor’s office say?
Here’s what happened, as read in the Public Ministry’s credentials: Natalia (now 20 years old, before she turned 18) went to the house of her ex-boyfriend Juan Manuel at dawn, and they both moved into his car. the car to a remote area even though it is within the same district. When he got there, he called his partner from the victim’s phone. Agustín, who came there by bicycle.
Both men started fight Meanwhile, the defendant hit the victim’s head with a wrench and punched him several times, causing him to bleed. Wounded He stated that he wanted to go to the hospitalThree of them got into the vehicle: the defendant in the driver’s seat, the victim in the passenger seat, and the defendant in the back.
Juan Manuel was still alive The attackers allegedly forced him into the car. They opened fire with a lighter.
All “with the clear intention to end his life and ensure that he does not experience the most pain.” minimum possibility of defenseProsecutor Pilar Romera spoke clearly because she was seriously injured as a result of the accident and could not get out of the vehicle on her own.
At quarter to five in the morning, Neighbor woke up with horn sound When he saw that the vehicle was on fire, he informed the police and fire brigade.