The Court of Instruction number 4 of Arona ordered at noon this Saturday, May 14, the pretrial detention, communicated and without bail for Ángel Martínezthe 83-year-old male charged with the murder of his wife, Clotilde Rodriguezduring the afternoon last Wednesday in Los Cristianos.
The head of said body, Nelson Diaz Friasimputes to said Vigo citizen a continued crime of mistreatment and another of murder with the aggravating circumstances of treachery (the victim had no option of defense), kinship (she was his wife and mother of his daughters) and gender.
In the next few days, said Court will be recused in favor of the Violence against Women Court of the aforementioned judicial district of the South of Tenerife, according to the information offered by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands.
As reported by EL DÍA in its digital edition last Thursday, the investigators of the Judicial Police Brigade of the South Tenerife Police Station of the National Police collected information in the marriage environment that allow indications that Clotilde suffered ill-treatment. physical and psychological for years by the now accused.
However, as the victim never filed a complaint with the security forces, the individual had no police or judicial record for gender-based violence.
Supposedly, during the afternoon of last Wednesday, Ángel Martínez stabbed his wife several times inside the home where they both spent long vacation periods in Los Cristianos, specifically in an apartment on Los Playeros avenue, in the near the church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen.
