The authorities of Marbella, Spain, confirmed this Thursday that the body of a woman who was found decapitated last Sunday corresponds to that of a Colombian citizen, murdered by her ex-partner, also a Colombian citizen.
The man, captured a few days ago after being pointed out by the relatives of the murdered woman, confessed to the murder.
body finding
The woman’s body was found last Sunday on Las Cañas beach, in Marbella, Spain. The body was mutilated: it did not have its head or its arms and, in addition, it presented a cut in the abdomen.
According to the Spanish media 20 Minutos, said wound led the authorities to consider that it was a mule, an expression used to describe people who carry drugs.
The first version indicated that one of the drug capsules could have exploded and the drug traffickers dumped the body in an attempt to get rid of the evidence.
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Nevertheless, The initial version lost strength when the complaint of the disappearance of a woman who was a victim of gender violence was known.
According to the relatives who reported the disappearance, the woman had received threats from her former sentimental partner, who had a bond to approach the victim due to allegations of violence and mistreatment.
One of the victim’s brothers a 46-year-old Colombian woman whose name has only been known to be Natalia, identified the body in a video on social networks, as a citizen had documented the terrible discovery on the beaches of Marbella.
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suspect identification
Last Tuesday, January 10, the Spanish authorities captured the woman’s ex-sentimental partner. At first, the man was arrested for breaking the restraining order against him. But this Thursday, cornered by the evidence, he confessed to the murder.
According to the Spanish newspaper Sur, the detainee is Leonel, a 45-year-old Colombian man who had a relationship with the victim for five months, until last November.
The subject accepted the facts at the Malaga Police Station.
Given the evidence that directly incriminated him in the disappearance of the woman, the main suspect has recognized the crime
The confessed murderer assured that a friend of his, also Colombian and who was already arrested for considering himself a co-perpetrator of the events, He drove him and his ex-partner to the beach in a van. There, Leonel killed the woman, cut off her head and hands, and threw her body into the sea.
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“Given the evidence that directly incriminated him in the disappearance of the woman, the main suspect has acknowledged the crime at police headquarters before being brought to justice,” the police said, as quoted by the newspaper 20 Minutos.
According to the authorities’ version, the woman’s body was found when she had been at sea for a few hours. She may even have died on the same Sunday that she was found.
The woman’s body, local media report, remains at the headquarters of Legal Medicine in Malaga, where the respective DNA tests and the autopsy were performed. The examination confirmed that the body corresponds to the Colombian woman reported missing.
It should be noted that the identification of the body was complicated, because his hands were cut off so as not to find the fingerprints. His teeth were also removed to complicate identification.
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Now, a court ordered this Thursday provisional detention and without bail for the perpetrator of the crime.
This is the fifth murder of a woman in Spain so far in 2023.
ANGIE RUIZ HURTADO
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
TIME
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