Alicante Provincial Court condemned to sentences that complement each other 30 years imprisonment A man accused of raping, robbing, and attempting to murder his former romantic partner at a home in San Fulgencio where the victim lived, as outlined in a decision issued by the First Division that may be appealed. The defendant, who was in prison and did not admit his guilt at the hearing held at the end of October, must pay compensation of just over 154,000 Euros to the victim for the moral damage suffered by his ex-wife, the injuries he caused her and the money. and other valuables stolen from his home.
The court also sentences the defendant restraining orders and banning contact with the victim By any method. The defendant was assessed by the Court to be sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment for sexual assault, a further 12 years for attempted murder and five years’ imprisonment for violent robbery. of seclusion.
The events declared proven in the court’s decision occurred in the early morning of May 2, 2022, in a house in San Fulgencio, where a Russian citizen, the former partner of the now convicted man, resided. Suspect He entered the house by breaking the ground floor window. and cash and various valuables, altogether worth 4,108 euros, were seized.
He threw her down the stairs
When his ex-partner returned, he had only been at home for about fifteen minutes. The defendant’s reaction when he saw her was to jump on her. He hit her in the face and other parts of her body. and as she kept telling him to give her money, he finally threw her down the stairs.
The attack continued in the basement. The defendant continued to hit her and once again told her to give him money or do something else in an attempt to scare her. I was going to kill him because I had nothing to lose..
He then took the victim to a room where the stretcher was located and placed it on top of him. He took out a big knife and insisted that she perform oral sex on him. The defendant’s ex-wife refused but then took her to another room where the bed was located, took off her panties and He sexually assaulted her.
The victim’s ordeal did not end with the rape yet. After completing the sexual assault, the defendant took the victim’s dress and wrapped it around her neck with the intention of ending her life. He squeezed her hard, intending to strangle her.. His ex-wife at first pretended to faint, but the defendant noticed her and pressed her a second time, and she had already lost consciousness.
Suspect He later believed the woman was dead And it started spray disinfectant on your genitals Baths, possibly to erase traces of the attack, according to the Civil Guard. Likewise, he had spread the duvet blanket in the corridor to cover his body, and at that moment the victim consciousness regained He told his ex-partner that his genitals were very painful and asked him to let him wash them with water.
He agreed to do so but always kept swinging the knife at her. After she washed and put on her panties, the defendant asked her for money again and she gave him what she found in her purse and in her children’s piggy banks. When he saw that he couldn’t find any more money, he asked for his credit card and password. He took this moment as an opportunity and persuaded him to go to the bank with his car to withdraw money.
The defendant and the victim went to the scene with their own vehicles. Bank branch of La Marina urbanization in San Fulgencio. His idea was to withdraw more money from an ATM located between the outer door leading to the street and the door leading to the office. However, he took advantage of a female client leaving the office and He ran inside to get help.. The suspect, who fled the scene, was later detained by the police. Civil Guard. The woman was treated for erosion, bruises and bruises.
Reliable and convincing version
According to the Trial Court, while the aggrieved party’s statement was “convincing”, the defendant’s exculpatory version was “unfounded”. The decision highlights that the victim maintained the same version of events throughout the procedure. The court said his statement “convincing, persistent and he has no doubt as to the truth of what he says.
The victim testified at the hearing that she was only thinking about how to survive during the attack and that she believed her children would find her with a knife pressed to her chest.