Five men and four women make up the popular jury that, starting this Monday at the Provincial Court of Ourense, is in charge of judging to the man accused of murdering his cousin’s girlfriend in February 2021, 22 years old, and seriously injured his relative, three years older. The suspect has denied remembering the night of the events.
What happened dates back to the early morning of February 19, 2021 when the suspect, who lived with his mother in a shed on a farm in Velle next to the victims, approached the home after telling his mother that he was going to “kill rabbits”. He asked to be opened and when they did he attacked the two cohabitants with a knife that he got rid of while fleeing.
The defendant’s version is that He doesn’t remember anything about that night, only that he was “scared” of the couple.as he said to questions from his lawyer, the only one to which he has responded. Although he added in his version that he does remember “one” stabbing the deceased, because she was supposedly the one carrying the knife with which he “wanted” to hit her “in the heart,” as he stated.
cruelty and treachery
Thus, as an alleged defensive act, he has acknowledged that he took the weapon from him and stabbed him “in the back” with it. It was the only thing he said in a statement that barely lasted three minutes, but it does not coincide with the opinion held by either the Prosecutor’s Office or the private accusations that represent the family of the deceased and the family of the survivor, who They see “viciousness” and “deception”, since the woman had 17 injuries.
Furthermore, they believe that, despite the paranoid schizophrenic disorder he suffers from, He was aware of what he was doing. For this reason, the Prosecutor’s Office requests 24 years in prison, 17 for the crime of murder and 7 more years in prison for the crime of attempted murder, while the private accusations request a reviewable permanent prison sentence and do not admit mitigating circumstances.
For her part, the defense lawyer asserts that the accused “is a sick person” that he had not been taking medication for nine months when the events occurred and requests the application of a complete defense.
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