The murderer of the Padrón pension admits that he also killed his ex-partner. In his first statement, José Antonio Luis Aguiar admitted that he ended the life of Adoración de la Cruz after giving her “four or five punches.”
During the first session of the second trial against him, the defendant reiterated that he had frequent discussions with his ex-partner and alluded to drug use as the cause of their fights: “We had a very high consumption, we were always arguing,” he said in court.
As for the fight that finally ended the life of Adoración de la Cruz, the defendant assured that “this attack occurred after the victim hit him with a mobile phone.”
Shortly before, the defense of the murderer of the Padrón pension had requested the acquittal of the accused for the second crime. José Antonio Luis Aguiar’s lawyer states in his brief that “he was not at the scene of the events when Adoración de la Cruz’s death occurred,” and argues that “there is no evidence to place him there.”
The Defense lawyer states that the story contained in the documents of the prosecutor and the private prosecution are not true and are based on what was raised by the Homicide Group of the National Police.
In the trial against Luis Aguiar, which will take place throughout this week, the Prosecutor’s Office will request a sentence of 25 years in prison for the accused, who is already serving a sentence for a previous crime at the Padrón pension, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
After the discovery of the body, which was found in several suitcases after a fire broke out in the Barranco de Santos, the investigation led back to Luis Aguiar, who had also had a romantic relationship with the victim.
The oral hearing, to which the defendant attended with a significant change in his physical appearance, shaved and with short hair, had to be postponed as a result of the restrictions derived from the coronavirus pandemic.
