César Román Viruete, the King of Cachopo, has admitted for the first time in a letter to the murder of his former partner, Heidi Paz, and assures that he has reached this request for forgiveness through “prayer and the encounter with Jesus Christ.” The man sentenced to 15 years in prison for the homicide sent this letter last month to the Provincial Court “unilaterally,” explained his lawyer Ana Isabel Peña. In the letter, advanced by Telecinco and to which EL PAÍS has had access, Román Viruete offers to give explanations in court about the crime that occurred in 2018. “I wish to express my firm promise to submit to the rule of law,” he affirms. his handwriting. The convicted person has not yet accessed any prison permit and recognition of the criminal act is practically a condition sine qua non to start enjoying going out on the street.
“I come to express my recognition of the crime committed, wanting to make clear my regret for it”, “I cannot turn back time, something I would like more than anything in the world”, “I want to express my willingness to face my responsibilities, as well as to repair the damage”, are some of the phrases with which the convicted person admits his responsibility for the events, something that he always flatly denied. During the trial, he constructed an entire story that included corrupt police officers and drug trafficking mafias to justify a forced disappearance of his victim in which he had had nothing to do. The man convicted of murder and dismemberment seems to have had a religious revelation, since at various points in the letter he refers to this faith. César Román assures that he prays “Christianly” every day to obtain forgiveness from his victim's family, that he has had a “reconciliation with God” and that he wants to “support his neighbor.”
The surprise came when, once the content of the letter was known, César Román's lawyer, Ana Isabel Peña, explained that at no time did she acknowledge the facts, that she wrote these lines in a moment of “desperation” for He has been in prison for five years and of course the appeals before the European courts continue. “I wasn't able to talk to him for a while and that's when she sent her away. He told me that he had written it and torn it up several times and that he finally sent it by his own decision because she couldn't take it anymore,” the lawyer points out. The convicted person received external legal advice from specialists in prison surveillance when taking this step.
The King of Cachopo, as he is known for the hotel company he ran when the events occurred, was convicted in June 2021 of killing and dismembering Heidi Paz. The sentence reflects that in 2018 César Román killed her ex-girlfriend in a way that could not be determined and that he then moved his torso to a warehouse that he had rented in Usera. He then tried to set her remains on fire, but the smoke alerted a neighbor. When firefighters put out the small fire, they discovered a torso in a suitcase. Heidi's limbs and head were never found, and Román's refusal to acknowledge the crime closed the possibility of knowing where the rest of her body was. Now, with this admission of guilt, the door is opened for Heidi's family to ask about these questions.
For Alexis Socias, lawyer for the Paz Bulnes family, this letter is a mere strategy to access prison permits. “In a year and a half, half of his sentence will be served and this would be a way to begin to access those privileges,” the lawyer explains to this newspaper.
César Román is currently serving his sentence in Alcalá Meco, where he is studying Law, as he also explains in his letter to the Provincial Court. “I want to respect the norms established in our Constitution, whose essential values I have assumed with my studies,” details the convicted person. The letter is a sheet of paper with a grid on both sides, a true exercise of containment for a man whose testimony at the oral hearing of his trial lasted more than four hours.
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