The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that Sofía E. had no injuries and that she “intentionally” attacked her husband in an attack of jealousy
A popular jury began this Friday to dive into the case of Sofía ER, the accused of killing her husband with a knife in the neck in San Pedro del Pinatar when discovering an alleged infidelity. The hearing began only with the presentation that the parties made of their positions and the defendant’s statement was postponed until next Monday.
The Prosecutor’s Office demands a sentence of 15 years in prison for her for an alleged crime of homicide and the private prosecution – which is brought by the parents and children of the victim – raises its request to a quarter of a century for an alleged crime of murder with the kinship aggravation. The defense, for its part, claims a six-month prison sentence, alleging that it was a tragic accident.
The defense lawyer Fermín Guerrero emphasized, during his speech, that Sofía did not deliberately attack her husband and that death occurred accidentally during a struggle between the two. “Why would she stab her husband? To leave her children alone? »Inquired the lawyer. “She had been enduring situations of infidelity, of forgetting for years… She wanted a united family.” The lawyer also assured the jury that the woman was a victim of gender-based violence for a long time.
The prosecutor, for her part, maintained that Sofia stabbed her husband with the knife “intentionally.” She remarked that she carried out the attack with a 20-centimeter knife that stabbed her halfway through. Regarding the mistreatment that the defendant assures that she suffered from her, the representative of the Public Ministry emphasized that Sofía did not have any injuries because “Esteban did not attack her.”
The lawyer for the private prosecution, Ana Belén Martínez, stressed, for her part, that the accused insisted that the victim return to San Pedro del Pinatar from Madrid, where she worked, and prepared everything to be alone with him the day in which death occurred. “She simulates an attempted self-harm because she knows that Esteban will try to stop her,” she emphasizes. “She did not stab to defend herself against her. She directed an accurate and willful stab to the neck,” she concluded.
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