A nursing assistant and a pharmacy graduate, the 46-year-old lady labored caring for the aged and had two youngsters in Colombia. Her ex-boyfriend, Leonel Herrera, confessed to having killed, beheaded and mutilated her: “He will need to have informed her one thing to get him into that van; maybe they’d threatened”This Friday GEAS divers are on the lookout for the stays of the girl whereas the alleged confederate goes to court docket
Natalia Mosquera had arrived in Spain 4 years in the past. She was Colombian, she had left her two youngsters in her nation looking for a greater future. She lived in Marbella. She was a nursing assistant and a licensed pharmacy. She made a residing caring for the aged. On December 8, she turned 46 years outdated. “The household referred to as her to inform her how younger and delightful she was. She was a humble, warrior lady. She raised her youngsters alone, holding on to God’s hand. She was very devoted,” her niece Karen Etayo tells Nius from Cali, the town the place he was born.
Last July, the girl started a relationship with Leonel Herrera, a 45-year-old compatriot who works as an engineer. Four months later she determined to finish the courtship. “She informed my grandmother that she had met a person. After her, he was impolite, aggressive. He started to psychologically mistreat her after which assault her. This has been very macabre,” says the younger lady.
They knew due to the ordeal he was going by way of. One of her youngsters relates: “He is a lunatic psychopath, who took her life as a result of she didn’t need to be by his aspect. He spoke to her about God and that gave her confidence. My mom was a Jehovah’s Witness, very non secular. They began to exit and shortly after she started to note unusual and possessive conduct. He threatened her and mentioned issues that scared her. Then the alarm went off and he or she determined to get away from that particular person. But he adopted her, harassed and threatened her. Until she someday he hit her within the face and nearly broke her septum.She plucked up her braveness and requested her brother for assist, who accompanied her to the police station.
It was December 19. The man had no prison report. He was arrested. After a speedy trial, the decide sentenced him to 6 months in jail and imposed a restraining order on him that prohibited him from speaking or approaching the sufferer for one more 16 months.
The crime
“She needed to go away him. She seen one thing unhealthy about him. She will need to have informed him one thing to get him into that van together with his different buddy, whom Natalia did belief. Perhaps they’d threatened to do one thing to her, or to her youngsters in Colombia. It’s a wretch”, laments his niece.
Leonel confessed that he had killed her underneath the watchful eye of about fifteen policemen on the sand of the seashore. He hid behind some dunes. After killing her, he reduce off her head and fingers, which he threw into the ocean. He additionally ripped off a tattoo that she had on her stomach and made a reduce to facilitate the expulsion of gases. She lastly went into the water along with her physique in her arms attempting to do away with him.
A fisherman discovered the physique floating amongst some rocks on January 8. Now her youngsters try to assemble monetary means to finance the funeral and journey to Spain to say goodbye to their mom.
In the search of Leonel’s residence, the Police discovered a radio and instruments which are being analyzed and the decide ordered his provisional admission, communicated and with out bail in jail, accused of murder and violation of sentence for ignoring the restraining order. He is within the Alhaurín el Grande jail, the place this Friday he might be evaluated by the technical workforce.
His buddy and alleged confederate will go to court docket within the subsequent few hours whereas divers from the Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard have begun to seek for the stays of the girl within the sea. The sturdy waves and the easterly wind introduced her physique to the shore, 4 kilometers from the scene of the crime, permitting the invention. Natalia is the fifth fatality from sexist violence in Spain because the starting of the yr.