After several situations, mostly carried out by Yhonier Leal and his defense, which have led to the trial being slower than expected, the stylist and confessed murderer of his brother and mother, said that he no longer accepted the pre-agreement signed with the Prosecutor’s Office, and that he is “innocent”.
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Eight days ago Yhonier Leal surprised the country by retracting the charges he had accepted, for the murder of his brother, the stylist Mauricio Leal and their mother, Marleny Hernández, said he accepted the pre-agreement because the Prosecutor’s Office “deceived” him and pressured him. .
This Saturday, after everything that happened, he was taken from the prosecutor’s bunker and transferred to La Picota in Bogotá.
They put him in the maximum security area of this jail.
It must remain there throughout the trial. The investigating body has not yet filed the indictment, now, without the agreement.
While the victims have already filed a criminal complaint for aggravated torture, which relatives of the victims are waiting for from Valle del Cauca, this time the Prosecutor’s Office takes this into account.
After several situations, mostly carried out by Yhonier Leal and his defense, which have led to the trial being slower than expected, the stylist and confessed murderer of his brother and mother, said during a hearing that he does not accept the pre-agreement signed with the Prosecutor’s Office, that is, that he does not accept charges and is “innocent”.
As revealed by the lawyer for the victims’ family, Elmer Montaña, this could make the trial, although longer, could end with a longer sentence for Leal.
For other jurists, it may be a strategy to delay the process against them.
He had accepted his responsibility.
Jhonier Leal denounced at the hearing this Friday, that he accepted the pre-agreement that the Prosecutor’s Office deceived him.
“I am an innocent person”he said, stating that “I am a person who has only served my family.”
He assured that now that it is “more clear and conscious, I made the firm decision to renounce this pre-agreement.”
In the words of Elmer Montaña, this retraction could play a trick on the confessed murderer: “Now the Prosecutor’s Office is going to file the indictment in the next few days and he is not going to make any negotiation”, this could lead to the sentence they give him exceeding 40 years in prison.
The family from Valle del Cauca had rejected that pre-agreement accepted by the Prosecutor’s Office.
the double homicide
Mauricio Leal’s stomach injury had signs that it had been caused by someone left-handed, and he was right-handed, that was clarified in the entire forensic report and technical inspection of the corpse, that is just one of the details found by the Prosecutor’s Office and presented at the public hearing on Monday, January 17, 2022.
The high quantity of pills that produce sleep and that had been consumed before the injuries, would not have allowed a suicide-homicide of this type.
Mauricio, had four wounds in the abdomen. The mother of him one, very violent.
The manner of death: “violent homicide”accused the Prosecutor.
He has been charged with charges of aggravated homicide, concealment of evidence; Yhonier Rodolfo Leal Hernández, brother and son of the victims. Now, he would face an intense trial.
The autopsy and time of death
On November 21 at 7:14 pm, Marleny (the mother) sent an audio to ‘Don Simón’, who took care of her dogs.
At 7:30 she called a friend. They talked for more than 20 minutes.
At 9:21 at night, Mauricio sent a voice recording to his brother Yhonier asking him to buy him some cookies, “only if you have enough, you won’t feel like a commitment.”
“At that time they were alive,” said the prosecutor.
After 11 pm that same day, the accused entered the house. There he supposedly said goodbye to them.
A modified note on Mauricio Leal’s cell phone blog, which he was supposed to have written on November 22 to say goodbye and explain why he was committing suicide, was modified on the morning of the 23rd, when according to ‘death window’, he it was lifeless.
Even, in an audio, there was a voice that said: “Forgive me, I love you”, but it was not that of the Valle del Cauca stylist.
ANDThis note was recorded with Mauricio already lifeless.
In the case of text messages, the way they were written raised suspicions from their driver, who already knew how his boss wrote. The phrase “jijiji, Mauricio did not use it”.
Access to the Arboleto residential complex is complex. Leal lived in the Liquidambar house 18 sector.
A voice note also betrayed the alleged murderer, because it contradicted what he said there, and what he had declared.
That is to say, he declared that on the night of November 21 “his mother said goodbye to him and also spoke with his brother who told him to leave the cookies for him.”
- Audio November 22 at 11 in the morning: «Mother I saw that they slept a lot, last night I arrived and they were asleep, and today they are still asleep» (they were already lifeless).
In addition, the audio that he sent to his brother saying “manito” was another detail, “because they did not treat each other like that,” said the prosecutor.
Forced to write the letter
The blows Leal had on his body would have been to force him to write the farewell letter.
The way in which the letter was written was what led me to think that he would not have written it of his own free will. It was his handwriting, but not his message.
The traces found in the document generated suspicion.
«It has raised, irregular, paused alphabetic characters, sinuous line lines, disproportion of signs and a lack of spatial order. It has changes in pressure, leaving colorless strokes and other more intense ones with greater ink discharge”, experts said.
Other details of the scene: the sheets were changed from beds and even elements such as a filing cabinet moved from place, this led the CTI investigators to think that someone with access and who knew the house well would have moved the scene before the discovery of the bodies.
In those hours there were no more workers; driver or domestic servants. Neither door nor windows had been forced.
Another of the alert movements that the case gave was the communication that he established with the banks where his brother had the accounts.
He sent petition rights to banks asking for information on the account statements, including sending a document also asking to be the sole manager of the company created by the stylist.
All these details are part of the investigation carried out by criminal authorities.
Now, Leal must continue the trial as one more prisoner from La Picota.
After retracting the murder of his brother, Mauricio Leal, and his mother, Yhonier Leal is transferred to La Picota prison – https://t.co/LkAfQ2mHZN pic.twitter.com/yuxXVDRHfk
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This was the day of his capture in January 2022:
