The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ratified the sentence of 29 years in prison imposed on the lawyer Pedro González Guerrero Codavid (50) accused of murdering his wife and little daughter, according to sentence 0623 drafted by Judge Luis Fernando Damiani Bustillos.
The victims are: Erika de la Concepción Rivera Agelvis (37) and her four-year-old daughter, whose bodies were found on January 22, 2011 lying on a bed in their apartment located in Residencias La Alameda, San Cristóbal (Táchira). . They showed signs of sexual abuse and mechanical suffocation due to suffocation.
Guerrero left his house that day for Cúcuta and on the way he called a brother-in-law to tell him to move to his house because he did not know about his wife. Arriving at the site, his brother found the bodies.
A few hours after the event, Guerrero was arrested by the Cicpc. On May 13, 2011, the detainee admitted his participation in the double homicide committed precisely on the day of the anniversary of his union as a couple.
“She later expressed to me the possibility that our relationship would not continue and told me that our relationship was no longer fulfilling her,” Guerrero told the 10th Court of Control of Táchira.
“I asked him if there was another person in the relationship, I reiterated that what was happening, and until he told me that there was another relationship,” he said. “I went into shock to the point that I grabbed the girl without knowing what she was doing, then I grabbed her and what the doctor pointed out happened, a situation that I did not expect in my life,” said the detainee who was sentenced that day to serve 29 years in prison.
After that, his lawyers requested that the conviction be reviewed, arguing that Guerrero admitted the facts due to the death threats made to him in the Santa Ana del Táchira prison.
In that case, the 7th Control Court of Táchira rejected such an approach arguing that the review of a sentence proceeds when new facts are discovered after the conviction and the “alleged death threats in prison” was a situation aired at the hearing. preliminary.
With the same analysis, the Constitutional Chamber responded to declare “there is no place” for the review request.
