“Brutal ferocity” was the aggravating circumstance requested by the prosecutor for Domestic Violence and Sexual Crimes Raúl Iglesias for the murder of a woman, whose body appeared in a state of decomposition in the Pantanoso stream on December 29 of last year. The judge granted his request.
On January 3, an acquaintance told the victim’s partner that she had something to tell him. Hours later she confessed to him that she had seen a man take her naked, tied her feet and strangled her. The witness pointed out that she was receiving death threats and that is why she had not dared to speak before.
According to the prosecutor at the hearing, the witness told him that the motive for the crime would be that the woman was stealing from him and the accused took out “a pipe” and “a bag of potatoes.” She also knew that the man had taken a cart with horses to the place where the body was found.
According to what emerges from the investigation, the victim and the perpetrator had been having sexual relations. In exchange, he provided her with money and drugs.
That December 29, three witnesses saw a black plastic tank floating two meters from the bank of Pantanoso Creek. They opened it and found the woman’s body, decomposed. She was wearing only underwear and a cloth wrapped around her head.
Her partner claims to have seen her for the last time on December 24 at 6:00 p.m. Although she pointed out that it was “very common for her to stay at her house for a few days and go to consume in different places, mainly in the former BAO factory.”
Classification and measures
The Justice granted all the requests of the Prosecutor’s Office and charged him with homicide, especially aggravated by “brutal ferocity”. Iglesias requested that the defendant remain in preventive detention while the investigation continues because there is a danger that the defendant will escape. In fact, he wanted to do it during the expertise carried out by a technician from the Forensic Technical Institute, he indicated at the hearing.
The prosecutor pointed out that “the testimonies of witnesses still remain to be obtained, as well as the performance of psychological and medical expertise requested.”
