A man who is in provisional prison for trying to burn his partner alive in A Estrada (Pontevedra) in September 2023 has assured that He did it to “scare” her and has denied that he had insulted or hit her.. This was stated this Tuesday during his statement before the fourth section of the Provincial Court, where he indicated that they had been together for about 15 years, but it had been a long time since they had shared a room. On the day of the events, according to their words, they had not argued.
The event dates back to the early morning of September 23, 2023. The case comes from the Investigative Court No. 1 of A Estrada and, as the Prosecutor’s Office explains in its qualification document, at the time of the events the couple had a relationship for more than 12 years, living in a house in A Estrada, property of the accused. However, by the end of their relationship he was already sleeping in separate rooms.
During this last period, he points out, the man showed “exaggerated and irrational jealousy” towards the woman, “constantly devaluing and humiliating her with insults, screams and verbal outbursts of violence.” Thus, the accused, who knew that his then partner was on the upper floor, He came up with a jug of gasoline, which he began to pour in front of the bedroom door. while he yelled at her that he was “going to kill her” and that they “would die together.” The defendant did the same on the interior stairs of the building until he reached the lower floor.
The accused maintains that he poured “two glasses” of gasoline
Asked if he insulted or hit her, the accused insisted that he did not, despite the fact that Yes, there was a previous restraining order on the victimalthough later they resumed the romantic relationship. Furthermore, he expressed that what the woman wanted was “for him to put her in the house papers,” because it was only in the man’s name.
After indicating that it was his partner who made the food and cleaned the house and that he “paid the bills” for the home, the man acknowledged that that night he did. He poured gasoline around the house and set it on fire. According to his story, he only had “two glasses” of gasoline that he used for his garden appliances, which he poured on the upper floor of the house and on the stairs that connect to the ground floor.
Asked why he did it, he did not give a specific explanation, but recounted several events that had occurred months before, during which The woman had left home for several weeks without asking him if he wanted to go.left alone “in charge of everything”, referring to animals and the garden. In addition, he acknowledged that “it didn’t seem right” that they barely spoke and that she didn’t sleep with him.
Even so, the defendant indicated that when he turned on the gasoline She was already out of the house. Finally, a step of the staircase burned, without catching the rest of the house.
“Clear” signs of having consumed alcohol
After him, his ex-partner came to testify, who recounted the treatment that the man gave him “when he was drinking”, indicating that he said “very ugly things” to him. During his statement, he explained that the man had been drinking “since the morning” and that She returned to him after a break in their cohabitation of just over a year because she “had nowhere to live,” since she does not have a house and resides in his, even today.
The alleged victim has indicated that she was watching television in her room when she heard the man say that he was going to burn the house and that “they were both going to die together”, so he left the bedroom and saw him pumping gasoline. Thus, he called the Police, considered the option of jumping out the window and finally decided to run and go down the stairs and leave the house.
Once down, always according to his version, the man would have also gone down and lit the fire. Seeing the smoke, she would have gone back in to try to help him out, at which point He would have tried to grab her to prevent her from coming out again, even punching him in the face. However, she squeezed his arm and managed to get away.
Civil Guard agents also attended the trial this morning, recounting the “clear” signs of having consumed alcohol presented by the man, who became violent with them when they told him that he was going to be arrested. One of the experts also indicated that there was no “great risk” to people’s lives, because the fire was lit on the ground floor and did not spread to the rest of the house.
For her part, a forensic doctor indicated that, despite the ingestion of alcohol, the man had “intact understanding” and I understood the risks of what I was doing, although he did have a “mild impairment of behavioral control.”
After all the statements, both the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution maintained their penalty requests, 12 and 16 years respectively, while the defense requested the man’s acquittal, insisting that the events that occurred were limited to damage to his own home with no intention of causing the woman’s death.
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