Young man who killed his sister is sentenced to 30 years in prison

Marcos Onofre was sentenced to 30 years in prison, A 22-year-old man who killed his 19-year-old sister, a crime he committed in complicity with his wife, who was also sentenced to two years in prison.

The victim, aged 19, She was strangled and suffocated after sharing alcoholic drinks with her family and friends. After most of them left, her own brother and his wife killed her by strangling her.

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The case was investigated as a femicide, an event that occurred in the early hours of September 11 in the town of Totoral, in the department of Oruro.

Marcos Onofre and his partner, Natalia Esmeralda Mendoza, were sentenced by the courts after accepting a summary trial, a sentence that was issued in the criminal investigation court of Poopó.

Both perpetrators of the crime, with different degrees of participation, will have to serve their sentences in the San Pedro prison. In the case of Marcos, the victim’s brother, he will serve the 30 years in prison without the right to pardon, But for his wife, and sister-in-law of the murdered woman, due to the years of sentence, which are less than three years, she will be able to access a judicial pardon and be released.