There were no surprises after the preliminary hearing held on Wednesday at the Educational Court No. 5 of Valladolid, which is responsible for the case. Esther Lopez dies. The examining magistrate on Friday issued an order opening an oral trial of the jury proceedings against the alleged person responsible for the disappearance and death of a Traspenedo resident, Oscar S.M., so that the proceedings will be sent to the Valladolid Regional Court next year. He sees the accused in the dock.
In her order, the judge upheld the general and specific accusations of the trial and rejected the dismissal requested by the defence, according to information from the press office of the Supreme Court of Justice of Castile and León.
Accordingly, the judge issued a decision to open the oral trial to try A murderstipulated in Article 139.1.1 of the Penal Code, and affiliated with the previous article, the crime of murder stipulated in Article 138 of the Penal Code. In addition to this, there is a crime against moral integrity, the crime of illegal detention, and the crime of failure to provide assistance, which are charges directed against the accused “as the author and direct person responsible for the events.”
Even before the decision was issued, the lawyers defending the defendants on Wednesday expressed their disbelief at the situation in which their client finds himself. “It seems unbelievable that we are here at a preliminary hearing for murder, when there is also Slim evidence One by one they were dismantled by this defence!”, lamented Ana Perez, one of the alleged killer’s defenders.
Regarding the various pieces of evidence required, Perez defended their importance, both those required before the start of the judicial process and those that will be implemented during its course, while rejecting the alleged delay claim, compared to what the coach herself indicated. The defender then referred, among other pieces of evidence, to color photographs of the autopsy in the possession of the UCO, and to other evidence such as the submission of a letter regarding a second mobile phone that Esther had “for which there was no data” and another letter to the Council to determine whether the body of the deceased showed signs of remaining for twenty-one days in a trench, “an area infested with insects,” all of which, as the defense understood, could be exercised within a few days.
Once the oral trial is initiated through the People’s Jury procedure and the corresponding proceedings are referred to the Regional Court, as the case may be All you have to do is set a trial date. Which will likely be held next year.
The Valladolid Public Prosecutor’s Office will attend that trial with a request for sentencing 18 years in prison With the murder of Oscar. For their part, the two special charges brought in the case, one representing the parents of the deceased and the other on behalf of the victim’s sister, consider the facts to constitute murder, among other serious crimes, and demand global penalties of 39 and 33 years’ imprisonment, respectively, for the sole accused.
In its document, the public accusation that the Public Prosecutor, Soledad Martin Najera, has so far personally carried out, also classifies the facts as premeditated murder, and requests eighteen years’ imprisonment, and the payment of 100,000 euros to each of the victim’s parents and 80,000 euros to her sister, as civil liability.
His body was found 23 days later.
The accusations date back to the night of January 12, 2022 when Esther Lopez and several friends – including Oscar, her alleged killer – toured various hospitality establishments, the last of which was the Castillo de Traspenedo bar, where the deceased and the accused were left alone at some point in a Volkswagen T-Roc owned by the latter. Esther then stated that she did not want to go to her parents’ house because she was drunk and had taken drugs and Oscar offered her to sleep at the family home in Traspenedo.
As soon as they arrived, always in the defendants’ opinion, an argument arose between the two for unknown reasons but which caused Esther to move away from the place. Then the accused followed her into his car, and hit her at a speed of about 40 kilometers per hour from behind at the level of her buttocks, and the impact was stronger on the left side. He confirms this The attack was deliberate and with intent to kill And it happened near Oscar’s house in the “El Romeral” urbanization area of Traspenedo.
According to the charges, Esther was alive after the accident, and if she had been treated, she would have survived. For this reason, they accuse Oscar of being far from helping her or calling the emergency services, Let him suffer until he dies. The primary cause of death was multiple trauma associated with hypothermia and consumption of toxic substances (alcohol and cocaine), and the cause of death was multifactorial shock.
When his death was confirmed… Oscar could have hidden the body He put his luggage in the trunk of his car and deposited it as quickly as possible in a ditch on the road. VP-2303, PK 0.7/0.8, towards Traspenedo, at the height of the traffic light “Overtaking allowed”, the charges are also considered proven.
The body of Esther Lopez was found at that location on February 5, 2022. On January 13, 2022 at approximately 1:00 p.m., the accused proceeded to wash the vehicle, while later, on February 1, 2022 and April 2, he attempted to delete all the data that the systems of the VW T-ROC vehicle, license plate 0612-LSF he was using, could save, which he did not save and conclude with success in its entirety.