A Spanish popular jury declared this Friday the Colombian Jorge Ignacio Palma guilty of the death of three women and the attempt to kill another seven.
(Also read: Spain: the macabre murders of women for which they accuse Colombian)
The verdict considers him the author of the sexist murder in Spain of Marta Calvo and Lady Marcela Vargas, and also of the murder of the third victim, Arliene Ramos.
In the case of Marta Calvo, the members of the jury conclude that there was sexual abuse and “she acted in a surprising manner and without the possibility of defending the victim.”
In addition, by making the woman’s body disappear, which has not yet been found, he tried to hide the causes of death, which have remained undetermined, and this is a greater pain for the family.
In this way, the jury opposes possible benefits of reducing the sentence imposed by Justice or requesting a pardon from the Government.
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So was the trial
Judge Clara Bayarri, who presided over the trial in the city of Valencia, valued that the verdict is “founded, detailed and coherent”, dictated by a jury made up of seven women and two men after five days of deliberations and a “complex” trial that lasted a month.
Palma, who has been in provisional prison since the end of 2019, when he confessed to having dismembered Marta Calvo’s body, was accused of having ended the lives of women in the course of sexual practices with cocaine and probably other substances.
😓#CasMartaCalvo| Visibly excited. Així eixia of the City of Justice Marisol Burón, Marta Calvo’s mother, after escorting the verdict of the popular jury that declared Jorge Ignacio Palma guilty
🗣️“Marta will appear, I know”, she declared between tears. pic.twitter.com/EtwPOODksl– Bona Vesprada (@BonaVespradaAP) July 22, 2022
The Prosecutor’s Office had requested sentences that add up to 120 years in prison for sexual abuse as a necessary means for a crime of homicide committed against the three women, sexual abuse against another seven and a crime against public health (drug trafficking).
The private accusations raised in their writings the consideration of what happened to three crimes of murder and demanded permanent reviewable prison for the defendant, the maximum penalty in Spain.
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*With information from Efe
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