In the spring of 2022, a man who tied his adoptive mother’s arms and legs, strangled her, hid her body in a freezer, and finally threw it into a building in Malaga, meters from the woman’s home, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison. The 26-year-old was unanimously found guilty by a popular jury in a trial that ended last week. The Malaga state audience is now accusing him of murder, violent robbery of an occupied house, and desecration of a dead body, compromising kinship.
The judgment emphasizes that the defendant, who was 22 years old at the time, entered his adoptive mother’s home with a minor with the intent of robbery. That was on May 25, 2022, and after violent access, the two asked the woman to PIN her credit card. Como esta no lo hizo, la atalon de pay, manos, luego la amordazaron. The adopted child then took “power” from the side corner surrounded by the skull, “knowing that his actions could result in death,” according to court documents. Finally, this is how he ended his life.
He then put the body in the freezer, cleaned the house and fled the scene with €900 he found in the victim’s pocket. Two days later, the body was taken to a trunk in the family burial chamber. After 24 to 48 hours, he was transferred to a Carrefour car in a black bag kept in a wardrobe in the Theatinos district, north of the city of Malaga.
The woman’s family reported her missing on May 23. The victim’s brother turned himself in to the police, along with his nephew (who is now convicted), even though the culprit of the murder confessed and did not facilitate the fate of his mother in recovering his sentence. Suddenly, he assured me that she had gone to Barcelona to meet friends who were “obstructing the investigation.” The National Center for Missing Persons and the SOS Desaparecidos Association then issued a notice asking for the cooperation of anyone with information on the possible location of a missing person. In parallel, officials from the National Police Homicide Group of the Malaga Commission investigated the case. Two months later, on July 13, the victim’s adopted son discovered her body in a chest of drawers 8 meters deep and was arrested.
During the trial, the defendant cooperated in uncovering the facts, and even though the popular jury determined that the “statements and confessions” revealed in the process were “late or simply irrelevant,” and that revealing the facts would only be useful after a full investigation, the defendant asked for the facts to be excused. He was unanimously found guilty and the judges of Malaga’s Court of Justice, Division 8 sentenced him to 27 years and one month in prison for murder, robbery with assault in a dwelling, and desecration of a corpse. In addition, compensation of 50,000 euros must be paid to the deceased’s mother and 15,000 euros each to the victim’s four brothers and son.
In this decision, the state hearing panel acquitted the women who had also been tried on concealment charges. It was the mother of the minor – whose children were sentenced to eight years in the hospital – and her husband who knew about the murder from the time it happened and advised the authors, who did not say anything about what happened, and who hid the body. The court believed that “the fact that the crime investigation committee knew that the body had been disposed of was not enough to constitute a crime,” which is completely unreasonable.
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