The Provincial Court of Segovia has sentenced a man to seven and a half years in prison who tried to kill a judge from Santa María la Real de Nieva (Segovia, 1,000 inhabitants) with a screwdriver. The parties have reached an agreement and the author, with a diagnosed bipolar disorder, accepts the sentence for attempted crimes and attempts against authority. The defendant, a farmer from a nearby town, had received an unfavorable sentence the day before and went to court in December 2020, where he stabbed Judge María Sonsoles Sanchidrián Velayos on several occasions, who spent nine days admitted to a hospital. hospital.
The Segovian, with initials ARS, has admitted what happened and must comply with a restraining order of one kilometer from the woman for eight and a half years, five and a half years of supervised release when he leaves the penitentiary and compensate the victim with 94,170 euros : 40,000 for moral damages, 30,000 for the consequences and 24,170 for the physical injuries caused. The magistrate’s defense had claimed 15 years in prison, while the Prosecutor’s Office claimed 12, although the closed agreement ditches the total time that the man, who had been in provisional prison since the attack, must spend seven and a half years behind bars.
The attack against the authority occurred around two in the afternoon of December 1, 2020, when the aggressor addressed the judge, who was inside her vehicle parked at the door of the Santa María la Real de It snows, 30 kilometers from Segovia city. There they spoke for a few moments after he asked her if she was Sonsoles Velayos, who the previous day had sentenced him to pay some 1,000 euros in legal costs for a process opened by this person, in relation to some land for fruit and vegetable cultivation, which ended in his against.
The man attacked her with the screwdriver and stabbed her in the eye and chest before the victim managed to flee and take refuge in the judicial offices after being persecuted by ARS These injuries caused a pneumothorax that kept her hospitalized in the Unit of Intensive care of a hospital.
After the hearing session, Sanchidrián’s lawyer, Aquilino Conde, considered the agreement between the parties to be “relatively prudent and good for everyone.” “She was not for the job of being spiteful and wanted to rebuild her life and that is why there has been this solution”, highlighted the lawyer, who added that the defendant had been diagnosed with a personality disorder, but that apparently he was not following the pertinent treatment and that this could lead to the criminal action for which he has been convicted.
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The judiciary of Castilla y León and other parts of Spain, especially in rural or small areas, demanded after this event more security measures in the surroundings of these courts to make it difficult for this kind of violent acts to occur.
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