The Provincial Court of Valencia has sentenced to 22 years in jail the defendant whom a preferred jury discovered responsible at first of this month of February of robbing and murdering the brother of Carlos María Almiñana within the metropolis of Gandía in 2021.
The sentence, which may be appealed earlier than the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, establishes that the defendant is the creator of against the law of homicide, for which he’s imposed 18 years in jail, and against the law of theft with violence, punished with one other 4 years.
In addition, the Justice of the Peace who presided over the trial has agreed that, as soon as 2/3 of the entire sentence imposed has been accomplished, the convicted particular person, Carlos Raúl Y. M, a 31-year-old Panamanian who resides illegally in Spain, will probably be expelled from the nation and be barred from returning for ten years.
Likewise, it should compensate 5 family members of the deceased with a complete of 42 euros for ethical damages.
Beat, sure and gagged the sufferer
The occasions, in response to the decision issued by the favored jury, occurred on February 17, 2021 on the sufferer’s residence, who lived alone and had a pleasant relationship with the defendant.
At one level, on the finish of the morning and for unknown causes -as the sentence has proven- the defendant hit the sufferer on the pinnacle and different components of the physique.
Next, with the sufferer semi-conscious, the attacker tied his arms to the pinnacle of the mattress with plastic ties, did the identical along with his legs utilizing a cable tied to the foot of the mattress and positioned him in his mouth, like gag, a shirt that prevented him from respiration.
The sufferer “within the scenario described lacked any risk of protection”, as defined by the Justice of the Peace, and the defendant along with his means of performing accepted that he might trigger his loss of life, “which lastly occurred, since he died shortly after as a consequence of an insufficiency cardio-respiratory illness brought on by mechanical asphyxia”.
While the sufferer was sure and gagged on the mattress, the now convicted man searched the home for valuables and seized a cell phone and three financial institution playing cards. He then went all the way down to the storage of the constructing and left the place aboard the car owned by the deceased.
In the authorized foundations of the sentence, the Justice of the Peace highlights the “lack of empathy and contempt” exhibited by the defendant in direction of the sufferer, “whom he left tied up like an animal in a scenario that assured him a painful and sluggish loss of life.”