A man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for killing his adoptive mother in the spring of 2022 after binding her hands and feet, strangling her, hiding her body in a freezer and finally dumping her in a building in Malaga a few meters from the woman’s home. The 26-year-old was convicted unanimously by the popular jury in a trial that ended last week. Now the public of the province of Málaga convicts him of murder, robbery with violence in an inhabited house and desecration of a corpse with an aggravated factor of kinship.
The ruling highlights that the accused, who was 22 years old at the time, entered his adoptive mother’s home with a minor with the aim of committing a robbery. It was May 25, 2022, and after arriving violently, they both asked to pin the woman’s credit card. Como esta no lo hizo, la ataron de pies y manos y luego la amordazaron. The adopted son later removed the “authority” from the corner, and the person surrounding his skull was “aware that his action might lead to his death,” according to the court document. Finally, this is how he ended his life.
After that, they put the body in the refrigerator, cleaned the house and fled the place with 900 euros that they found in the victim’s pocket. Two days later, the body was moved to a box in the family burial vault. After between 24 and 48 hours, he was transported in a Carrefour car and in a black bag carried in a box located in Barriada de Tetinhos, north of Malaga.
The family reported the woman missing on May 23. The victim’s brother and his nephew – now sentenced – came to the police for him, although the perpetrator of the murder confessed and did not facilitate his mother’s fate, as the sentence was restored. Suddenly, he confirmed to me that she had gone to Barcelona to see some friends “obstructing the investigation.” Subsequently, the National Center for Missing Persons and the SOS Desaparecidos Association issued notices requesting the cooperation of anyone providing information about their possible location. In parallel, agents from the Homicide Group of the National Police of the Malaga Commission investigated the case. Two months later, on July 13, the victim’s adopted son was arrested after the body was found inside an eight-metre-deep box.
During the trial, the accused requested pardon for the facts, although the People’s Jury decided that he had cooperated in clarifying the facts and that the “statements or confessions revealed” by the process were “belated or merely irrelevant” and that it had only led to the facts being revealed after the entire investigation had been completed. He was declared unanimously guilty and now the judge of Malaga Court No. 8 has sentenced him to 27 years and one month in prison on charges of murder, robbery with violence in an inhabited house and desecration of a corpse. Furthermore, you will have to pay compensation of 50 thousand euros to the mother of the deceased and 15 thousand euros to each of the four brothers of the victim and her son.
In the ruling, the regional hearing acquitted the women who were also tried for the crime of concealment. It was the minor’s mother – who was sentenced to eight years in hospital for her children – and her husband, who knew about the murder when it happened, and then advised the authors, who did not say anything about what happened and hid the body. The court believes that “the knowledge of the Criminal Investigation Authority and the mere knowledge that the body was disposed of does not meet the content of the criminal offense” and are therefore completely absurd.
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