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The Supreme Court confirms reviewable permanent prison for a man who killed his aunt in Tenerife | Courts

The Supreme court has decided to confirm the conviction of reviewable permanent prison imposed on a man who in 2019 murdered his aunt in “a brutal beating” in the Tenerife district of Ofra, a sixty-year-old woman with a recognized disability. Sources of the case affirm to Cadena SER that the Supreme Court justices endorse the imposition of this sentence on the murderer, understanding that the vulnerability of the victim it was not taken into account twice to impose the penalty.

The events occurred in 2019 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The defendant attacked his aunt in what the judges who studied the case described as “brutal beating“executed with”unusual fury“By then, in addition, the aggressor had been mistreating his victim for some time, with insults and controlling all his contact with the outside world. The victim, according to the proven facts, had” countless injuries all over his body “and finally suffered”. a slow and agonizing death. “

Sources in the case tell this station that the Supreme Court, as requested by the Canarian Equality Institute and the Prosecutor’s office, has rejected the recourse of the convicted person and has confirmed the permanent prison sentence that can be reviewed by rejecting some of his arguments, for example that the vulnerability of the victim had been taken into account in duplicate to convict him.

The judges of the Supreme Court, in the sentence, endorse the previous resolutions of the Canarian courts to show that he must be sentenced because his intention it was always to end his life. “Rarely are data provided that so clearly allow defining a direct fraud of the first degree” since “they show that the defendant gave such a beastly beating from vital areas of the body to his victim that it can only be understood that he did so because he wanted to kill her “, reasons the sentence that has had as a rapporteur the magistrate Angel Hurtado.

“Because it is a woman”

The sentence to which this station has had access also guarantees that the account of proven facts included the mistreatment and control to which the murderer had subjected the victim. He had “impeded” the woman’s relationship with family and friends, “she couldn’t leave without him” from home and managed her money and even her visits to the doctor.canceling her as a person because she is a woman“in addition to uttering macho insults against her.


The Supreme Court has confirmed the permanent prison sentence that can be reviewed by the accused / EFE

On this point, the Supreme Court justices also endorse the performance of the popular jury that studied the case in the first instance. “The judge focused on what he had to focus on, which was to approve the factual budget “being” a necessary and relevant test for the purpose of what he had to prove. “Another of the defendant’s complaints had to do with the first lawyer who assisted him during the trial, whom he resigned at the beginning of the trial. the view.


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