Jury found not guilty LFC, 67 years old and residing in Manresa (Barcelona), Accused of letting his sick wife die for not taking care of him Couldn’t get out of bed for months. The prosecutor demanded that he be sentenced to 13 years in prison for murder and a five-year probation. The defendant assured at the hearing that the woman did not want the doctors to visit her. Two witnesses also drew attention to this version.
The accused and his wife got married in November 2008 and have no children. After living together for 10 years, on December 15, 2018, a 57-year-old woman died in the hospital where she was taken to Manresa Hospital. Admitted because of septic ‘shock’ caused by multiple infected ulcers. in which body it was present. When he went to the health center, he also complained of bone, larval and dry fecal residues in the hair, and the remains of buried clothing and tissue loss due to not being washed in time.
months in bed
The woman had been living in prostration in bed for more than three months due to the respiratory and circulatory problems that her husband and herself were experiencing. The prosecution argued that the LFC “completely neglected him without giving him the assistance that such a situation entails”. The accused underlines the accusation, despite being aware of his wife’s pathologies, ” witnessing her progressive physical deterioration every day‘ and realizing that his insistence on this neglect and ‘neglect’ put his life in danger, he ignored the ‘months of duty of care and attention’. And not because of the ‘marriage bond’ that united them, but also for the ‘coexistence itself’.
During the hearing, the defendant explained that his wife did not want anyone to go home “out of shame”, that the property was deteriorated due to lack of hygiene, considering that there were also unlit rooms. leaks. “we had left“The defendant, who said he felt ‘powerless’ in the face of the deteriorating condition of his home, explained that when he called the emergency services, the woman, who did not want to be involved, reproached him for having betrayed him”.