On December 17, the preliminary hearing of the famous crime of Alfonso, “El de Copado”, the 55-year-old man suffering from serious mental retardation – which made him look like a child in front of the public – will take place at the Town Hall of Justice of Córdoba. … neighbors – and that he was beaten to death and abandoned on a road Villaviciosa of Cordoba on January 27, 2021.
The event shocked this Sierra Morena municipality of just over 3,000 inhabitants. This brutal death, which shocked the neighborhood, because Alfonso was a harmless man, loved and known for his innocence, gave rise to one of the most complex investigations in recent years in the province.
After four years of investigation under absolute judicial secrecy, including several years under summary secrecy, the case now moves to the preliminary hearing, during which the investigating judge must confirm whether there is sufficient evidence to place the suspect in court. only investigatedpurify and admit the evidence that the Jury will examine, resolve the technical issues raised by the parties and establish the purpose of the verdict before submitting the case to the Provincial Court of Córdoba for its decision, scheduled for the beginning of this next year 2026.
The investigation, led by the Court of Instruction number 2 of Cordoba by the Civil Guard, was particularly complex due to the absence of direct witnesses and by the nature of the scene where the body appeared – an uncrowded place, with mud where it had rained that very night.
Throughout these years, agents have achieved exhaustive field monitoringand they even drained a stream in search of a possible murder weapon – a knife – they analyzed the orography of the land and carefully studied the vehicle tracks who were marked in the mud, because it had rained the day before the crime.
Viewing the security cameras of a neighboring vineyard, placed high up, at an angle that does not reach the entire area of the road – did not identify any suspects.
The body was found by a neighbor walking his dogs and whose statement was decisive in the early stages of the investigation. According to his testimony, the brutality of the injuries suggested that Alfonso could have been attacked on the spot, at a point on the road where the attacker I knew it wouldn’t be recorded, or that he had been dragged to the fence where he finally appeared, which would require the participation of more than one person given the victim’s build.
Jury court
Finally, the investigation resulted in the prosecution of the person indicted and the formal accusation of the Cordoba parquet after transforming into Jury courtwho will be in charge of decide guilt or the innocence of the only person indicted, who remains free, as judicial sources confirmed to ABC.
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