The verdict seals the agreement reached between the parties for which he will be sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison
A popular jury on Tuesday found Alejandro MR guilty of a crime of homicide, the resident of Cartagena who acknowledged having stabbed his stepson in the neck that was fatal. This verdict comes to seal the agreement reached between the parties and that will set his sentence at twelve years, six months and one day in jail.
“I was very nervous and did not know what I was doing,” stressed the defendant with a lump in his throat during the first session of the trial. “I’ll pay it this way because you can’t do it any other way, but I’m very sorry.” Alejandro M., guilty of the death of Eduard-Alexandru, 21, must also compensate the victim’s mother – her ex-partner of hers – in 120,000 euros.
The crime, which shocked the Cartagena neighborhood of La Concepción, occurred in September of last year in the house that the accused shared with his partner and her two children. Around 11 p.m. on September 4, Alejandro M. mediated a small argument that had arisen between her girlfriend and her son and a scuffle arose between them. Once the confrontation was over, her mother took her son by her waist and took him to the kitchen gallery with the intention of calming him down. At that moment, when it seemed that the defendant was going to leave the kitchen, he took a large knife and went to where her girlfriend and her son were.
The mother could not prevent Alejandro M. from stabbing the young man in the neck. “When I raised my head, I already had the hole in my neck,” she recounted. “He went all white and he kind of wanted to breathe but he couldn’t.”
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