A popular jury has unanimously found guilty the accused of defrauding, robbing and murdering an elderly couple in the La Bordeta neighborhood of Barcelona in August 2019. The verdict was announced yesterday afternoon in an event that lasted more than three hours in the Provincial Court of Barcelona. To the victims, Manuel and Piedadan octogenarian couple, were found dead in their home in the Catalan capital at the end of the summer of 2019. The police found no signs of robbery at the crime scene. The door had not been forced and was not locked. No DNA of any suspect was found either, although connecting the dots, the regional police investigations pointed to a salesman who had become friends with them, Marcos F.who defrauded and robbed the elderly. The accusations request for him two permanent prison sentences that can be reviewed for two murders with teaching and treachery.
The verdict was made public yesterday afternoon after the trial held this month in the Barcelona hearingwhere on Tuesday the accused “flatly” denied the crime and assured that he had a very good relationship with the victims, which he defined as beautiful people. «I found out on television. “I was shocked,” the defendant said during the trial.
The prosecutor, Felix Martindescribed it as a “pack of lies” and, like the private prosecution, maintained the request for two permanent prison sentences that could be reviewed for each murder with treachery and cruelty to facilitate and prevent the discovery of another crime.
The prosecution requests for the crimes of murder the sentence of permanent, reviewable prison and for the other crimes 12 years and 7 months in prison, and asks to compensate the son of the deceased with 300,000 euros and each of her two granddaughters with 100,000 euros for damages and moral damages.
The defendant (who responded to the private prosecution and the defense but not to the prosecutor) said that his relationship with the couple was “first business and then friendship”, that he visited them often and that he gained their trust but not to profit by taking advantage of them. of the husband’s despair over his wife’s state of health, reports Ep.
The prosecutor insisted that the motive for the crime was the defendant’s “agonizing” economic situation and that his only objective was to get money no matter what. He also requested that, if there is a conviction, the Catalan Consumer Agency of the Generalitat and to Ministry of Consumer Affairs to assess “inspection and sanctioning activities” that protect the elderly from these scams, and called it despicable that there are companies that seek exaggerated profits on sales to vulnerable groups.
According to the prosecutor, the accused, as a result of his work as a commercial salesman products related to health and well-being aimed especially at elderly people, maintained a business relationship with the victims. After gaining their trust and taking advantage of their circumstances, the need for company and the fragility inherent to their age and medical situation, the accused managed to sell them a large number of products, most of them unnecessary, achieving the payment of considerable sums of money, according to sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).
Taking advantage of this relationship and the visits he made to the couple’s home, he managed to obtain their affiliation data and the bank card and tried on several occasions, some of them successfully, to make various amounts of money his own through transfers and withdrawals at ATMs. When the victims realized this, they asked the accused for explanations. To avoid the consequences of the discovery of his previous acts, he attacked the victims with a cutting instrument and dealt them several blows, causing the death of both. He then seized several pieces of jewelry from both victims.
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