The jury estimates that the Cartagena ripper also killed his girlfriend

The popular jury finally did not believe Agustín S.’s version and ruled this Thursday that this resident of Cartagena’s Barrio Peral ended the life of his girlfriend, María Dolores Sandoval, in 2018, later dismembering the body and getting rid of it -it has not yet appeared -. These nine men and women considered proven not only the crime of desecration of the corpse, for which the accused faces a sentence of five months in prison and which he himself acknowledged in his statement, but also that of homicide -with the aggravating circumstance of kinship- , which he repeatedly denied and that can keep him fifteen years behind bars.

The jury also unanimously agreed to grant a pardon to the defendant.

With this verdict of the popular court, the Court will now be in charge of imposing a sentence according to the crimes that are considered proven. Hours earlier, in his turn to have the last word, Agustín acknowledged, as he had already done in his statement, that he dismembered the body of his partner but maintained that he is “innocent” of the murder he is accused of. He also took the opportunity to apologize to the relatives of this woman, who left three children and six brothers. “I am heartily sorry,” he stressed.