The fashionable jury has unanimously discovered José Luis Abet responsible of the homicide of his ex-wife and her mom and sister. The starting of the deliberation began at midday on Tuesday after a morning that the events have devoted to agreeing on the item of the decision on which they needed to pronounce.
The deliberation has lasted for about six hours and Abet has additionally been discovered responsible of two crimes of psychological harm to his two minor kids by expressly wanting them to witness the crime; and unlawful possession of weapons
The trial started on March 6 and Abet was accused of three crimes of homicide, one crime of unlawful possession of weapons and two crimes of significant psychological harm. It was held behind closed doorways as a safety measure for Abet’s kids. The kids, who had been 4 and seven years outdated when the crime occurred, witnessed how his father shot his mom, his aunt and his grandmother.
His protection requested the mitigation of late confession
The deliberation started 4 days later than anticipated, for the reason that preliminary plan positioned this step on the finish of final week. However, the alteration of the protection report with the inclusion of the analogical mitigation of late confession moved the presentation of the conclusions to Monday and to this Tuesday the elaboration of the item of the decision.
Over the previous week, 21 witnesses and 17 civil guards have testified on the Pontevedra Court, in addition to skilled technicians from the areas of psychology, forensic medication, ballistics or specialists from the Civil Guard’s Chemistry division.
The eldest son of the sufferer and defendant was additionally known as to testify, one thing lastly dominated out with the intention to protect his privateness. Instead, he reproduced within the room the recording of the assertion he gave about what occurred.
He went to his ex-wife’s home with a gun
According to the Prosecutor’s temporary, the occasions occurred shortly earlier than 8:00 a.m. on September 16, 2019, when the person went to his ex-wife’s home realizing that at the moment she was leaving the home by automobile within the firm of her associates. two kids collectively, seven and 4 years outdated. With him she carried a brief weapon with the identification quantity erased.
To shock his ex-wife, and “stop her from working away”, the defendant positioned his car in entrance of the storage door and waited for it to open, then stood on the peak of the driving force’s window and shot her within the head with the weapon, which he carried hid on his again. After the primary shot to her face, he shot her twice extra within the neck and as soon as within the chest, whereas her kids had been within the again seats.
When he was leaving the scene of the crime in his car, the defendant got here throughout a automobile through which the sufferer’s mom and sister had been heading in the direction of the home, who had been alerted by neighbors and by a name from the lady herself. “At that second, the investigated additionally decides to finish the lives of each, which is why he modified the route of the march and adopted them till they reached the home,” the letter continues. Once there, the defendant shot 4 occasions in opposition to the mom of his ex-wife and 3 times in opposition to his sister, ending his life on the spot. These murders had been additionally witnessed by the person’s two sons, whom he advised to attend on the scene till the Civil Guard arrived.
They request for him reviewable everlasting jail
The prosecutor’s temporary factors out that the defendant “didn’t have any kind of allow” for weapons on the time of the crimes, and that “he expressly needed his underage kids to witness how he killed his ex-wife, with the resultant struggling that it entailed for them.” “, since he selected the second through which they each left the home to go to highschool.
Due to those details, each the prosecution and the accusations -private and fashionable, carried out by the Friends of Galicia Foundation- request for him everlasting reviewable imprisonment, in addition to that he can’t method or reside within the municipality of Valga for a interval of 35 years.
Likewise, the Public Ministry asks him to compensate the husband and father of the victims with 475,000 euros, and with 341,000 to every of their kids. It additionally claims 235,000 euros in compensation for the mom and grandmother of the deceased, 110,000 euros for the boyfriend of the murdered lady and 70,000 euros for every of her 4 brothers.