“When I got home, the kitchen door was locked because someone was pushing it from inside, but you could hear my father screaming: ‘Help, they are going to kill me.’ When I managed to get in, I found my father lying on the floor, covered in blood. … “And Miguel Ángel beat him with kicks and punches,” said one of the brothers of the man accused of killing his father in the town of La Sota de Valderoyda in Leon on December 29, 2023, when he also attacked him.
He said this in the Leon Regional Court, where the trial will be held until Thursday and where a popular jury will have to decide whether or not Miguel Ángel BP is guilty of murder and minor injuries for allegedly killing his father and attacking his brother.
This brother was the first to testify in the Lyon court, as the accused would do so at the end of the trial, and he reported that in the afternoon of the events they were both drinking something and there was a moment when the accused said “andIt was time to get my father out of the way And allow new generations to pass through.
Then the witness went out to smoke, while his brother left in the truck, and some of the townspeople took him to his home. When he got there, it seemed “strange” to him that everything was dark and the kitchen door was closed because “Miguel Ángel was pushing it from inside.” While his father asked for help.
Once inside the kitchen, The witness saw his father “lying on the ground, covered in blood.” His brother “was in a very aggressive state, and they beat him with kicks and punches all over his body and head,” so he intervened in the middle to disperse him, but the accused also beat his brother while calling for help. Thanks to the arrival of some neighbors, Miguel Ángel was able to be subdued.
The accused’s second sister told the regional court that she was at the family home on the evening of December 29, when her brother entered, and when he saw her he “stayed still for a moment and then left.” The young woman left home to get into the car with her mother and former sister-in-law, but she never saw her brother anywhere again.
Another sister stated that she discovered what happened that night, after receiving a call from her mother and going to Lyon Hospital. When he arrived at the hospital, he met his father, who told him that Miguel Ángel had beaten him, and that while he was doing that he was saying all the time that he wanted to kill him and Who hit him without knowing why», reports ICAL.
According to him, months ago, he had a telephone conversation with his brother regarding his father’s hip surgery, in which the accused told him that his father “was no longer well and that we had to think about making room for the new generations.”
Alleged parricide
The events charged occurred this week in Leon Regional Court after 9 p.m. On December 29, 2023, when MA.BP, according to the previous qualifications document of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, after spending the whole afternoon “to have some wine with his brother”, went to the family home located in the city of La Sota de Valdeiroida in León.
Once he arrived, the accused, who was 38 years old at the time, started an argument with his 77-year-old father, “suddenly and without the possibility of defense,” during which he threw him to the ground, and as soon as he got there, he “kicked him in the body and head to end his life.” In addition, the 28-year-old brother, who tried to separate him from his father, “also took hits.”
Both the accused’s father and brother were treated by Sacyl’s emergency services and transferred to the University Care Complex in Lyon, where the father remained in the intensive care unit until his death in the early hours of January 3, 2024. MA.BP was arrested at the scene and entered prison three days later, where he remains to this day as a precaution.
In view of the facts previously stated, the Public Prosecution requested that he be sentenced to 19 years in prison for the crime of premeditated murder with the aggravating circumstance of consanguinity, and another minor injury, while the Special Prosecution requested the application of life imprisonment, subject to review.
For its part, the defendant’s defense confirmed that his client was “ready to commit murder and another minor crime of causing injury.” Who will be sentenced to ten years in prison.
next to, He cited previous alcohol consumption as a mitigating factor. So that he was in a “state of psychological change,” in addition to not applying the aggravating circumstance of kinship, as “in the context in which the incident occurred, he had no idea who was arguing and that the confrontation was with his father.”