Noelia de Mingo, a physician who was involved in a fatal incident at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz in Madrid in 2003 and who in 2021 attacked two supermarket workers in El Molar, Madrid, has requested supervised freedom to leave the Fontcalent Psychiatric Center, where she was ordered to be confined for 33 years after the latest assault.
To seek release, De Mingo argues that she is stable and that the mental illness she faces can be treated and controlled with medication, as currently occurring, according to legal sources cited by Efe. She has approached the Madrid Court of Appeal division that handled the murders at Jiménez Díaz, rather than the division that handled the 2023 case involving two attempted murders, which led to her institutionalization for 33 years, preventing her release until March 23, 2061.
According to the prosecutor who represents the complainant in both proceedings, Carlos Sardinero, the defendant should seek supervised freedom in both divisions and have both grants issued simultaneously due to her history. He notes that she attempted to murder two people while under family custody for the Jiménez Díaz killings, which triggered the second commitment to a psychiatric center.
The lawyer thus believes that supervised freedom should not be granted, especially since in this case she is not even applying while under family custody, and he points to the concern about the impact of her potential release on the affected families.
The Madrid Provincial Court ordered in 2006 that Noelia de Mingo serve 25 years of confinement (through 2028) in a psychiatric facility for the 2003 murder of three people at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz in Madrid, where she served as a physician.
She was considered the perpetrator of the acts but was acquitted on criminal grounds due to a complete mental illness exemption, resulting in a psychiatric internment order.
Liberty in 2017
She was released in October 2017 by decision of the Madrid Provincial Court, which, in line with the prison surveillance judge and medical and forensic reports, replaced the internment with outpatient treatment and family custody.
Four years into freedom, on September 20, 2021, she attempted to kill two supermarket workers in El Molar by stabbing them, which led to reentry into the Fontcalent Psychiatric Center in Alicante.
In November she faced trial for these acts and reached an agreement with the Public Prosecutor’s Office that—as happened in 2006—resulted in acquittal of two murder attempts and one assault on a public official due to a complete exemption for psychic anomaly, and she was ordered to remain in a psychiatric prison center for 33 years.
The sentence also imposed a supervised freedom measure consisting of not approaching the victims or contacting them for five years and not entering El Molar during that period.