The Children’s Court of Valencia has found guilty of murder a teenager who killed a man in Carlet on Christmas Day 2019 by hitting him in the head with a wooden log, minutes after a fight. father suffered traumatic eye injury. The minor, who was 15 at the time, acknowledged the facts and pleaded guilty to the case at a consent hearing this week. two years’ imprisonment in closed regime and two more years’ probation.
The crime occurred in the area Early morning hours of December 25, 2019 The little boy was at home with his parents, his six-year-old brother and four friends Villaverde de Carlet neighborhood. While his father was getting some fresh air on the street, his neighbor José Manuel Lloria, 49, who had been involved in incidents in the neighborhood the previous afternoon that the police had to intervene in, arrived at the scene.
This person he had a knife in his hand and began screaming, which alerted the now doomed man and his friends, who left the house. According to the facts declared to be proven, the minor started throwing stones at José Manuel to stop his behavior. Thereupon, a fight broke out between the little boy’s father and this person, who was joined by the young man who entered the house, grabbing a chair and throwing it at his opponent. It was such bad luck that his own father’s eye was seriously injured as a result of the impact.
He was touched by the anger of seeing his one-eyed father, The youngest took a six-meter log of woodThe 135-centimeter-thick bullet hit José Manuel hard in the head and he collapsed to the ground.
treachery
Already with his victim without the possibility of defense on the ground (he was therefore found guilty of murder and not manslaughter), the young man continued to hit him in the head until a friend tried to subdue him to stop him.
The little boy fell on top of her and got blood on his clothes. The sentencing also states that he broke into his home, changed his clothes, and burned the bloody clothes in a bonfire to eliminate possible evidence incriminating him.
The father was initially imprisoned as the alleged perpetrator, but his son took full responsibility
In fact, Civil Guard investigators initially arrested the father, the alleged perpetrator of the murder, and the father was even imprisoned for these events. However, days later the teenager confessed that he was responsible for the death of his neighbor Carlet, and although it was initially thought that he could take responsibility for exonerating his father, whose criminal sentence was much greater, all the evidence showed that it was he who carried out the blows that ended José Manuel’s life. “Serious, high-energy craniofacial trauma”According to the autopsy.
The Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office requested a five-year prison sentence, but after an agreement was reached between the parties defense lawyer Juan Antonio Rodríguez de Dios, was sentenced to only two years of closed regime and two years of supervised release. Minimum penalties for the crime of murder, even if the civil liability of 30,000 euros has not been previously paid.