To the third… It could not be both. The trial scheduled for this Monday in Vigo (Pontevedra) in opposition to 4 false bathrooms accused of drugging and robbing some aged folks through the pandemic couldn’t happen. It is the third time that it must be suspended.
The listening to was initially scheduled for January of this 2023. But then it needed to be postponed because of the absence of two police witnesses. A date for May was set once more, but it surely needed to be canceled once more as a result of it was a vacation in Madrid and a videoconference couldn’t be held. This Monday, that downside was repeated once more.
The impossibility of finishing up a videoconference has prevented, as soon as once more, the trial from being held within the Criminal Court quantity 3 of Vigo. Therefore, a brand new date has been scheduled: November 23.
Some occasions that occurred in 2020
The information that must be judged date again to April 2020, when two of the defendants appeared on the dwelling of a septuagenarian couple in Vigo with the false excuse of giving them a covid check.
According to the prosecutor’s transient, each would have posed as bathrooms and would have disguised themselves in white coats, gloves, and masks. Meanwhile, the opposite two defendants carried out surveillance duties outdoors the home.
The false well being employees who entered the home would have given the girl a combination of benzodiazepines and ecstasy, inflicting her to fall unconscious and injure her foot. Meanwhile, they tied up her husband (who died this yr) and demanded that she inform them the place she saved cash and valuables.
The thieves managed to pay money for 4,000 euros in money, in addition to two Cartier gold watches and varied jewels. Before fleeing, in addition they drugged the person.
Scam try months later
Months later, in January 2021, two of the defendants, who knew the sufferer (as a result of that they had already made financial transactions associated to numismatic exercise with him), satisfied him to accompany them to a financial institution to withdraw 3,000 euros that he needed to ship them in alternate for a supposed assortment of cash.
The outdated man, who was cognitively impaired, withdrew the cash however, on the final second, backed down and ordered it reintroduced.
Two days later, the suspects tried many times satisfied him to go to the financial institution to withdraw the three,000 euros, and even tried to get the staff to place one in every of them as a licensed individual within the sufferer’s account. On that event, the monetary establishment’s personal workers notified the police.
9 years in jail
The Prosecutor’s Office considers the 4 accused authors of a criminal offense of theft with violence in an inhabited home, utilizing harmful means; of a misdemeanor damage; and a minor offense of damage.
All this with the annoying circumstances of the usage of disguise and abuse of superiority, and recidivism within the case of one of many defendants.
Likewise, two of the defendants are additionally charged with a continued crime of tried fraud.
For every of them, he asks for 9 years in jail and a effective of 900 euros; and, moreover, for these accused of tried fraud, he asks for an additional 6 months in jail.
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