Members of the Jury Court the defendant was found guilty of killing a woman in July 2020 in the municipality of Santa Úrsula. The verdict was read after 2:00 p.m. this Thursday, June 16, at the Palace of Justice in Santa Cruz of Tenerifeafter the trial ended yesterday Wednesday.
José Miguel Quintero killed his sentimental partner Carolina Fumero in the early hours of July 16, 2020 in the home of the former, on Las Turcas street, in the La Corujera neighborhood.
The members of the Jury consider that Quintero, known by the alias of El Pingui, he committed a murder with treachery, with the aggravating circumstance of kinship (because the victim was his girlfriend) and the extenuating circumstance of confession (since the person involved acknowledged what he had done in his first statement to the Civil Guard investigators at the door of his home).
Given these circumstances, the delegate prosecutor for Violence against Women, José Luis Sánchez-Jáuregui; the attorney for the private prosecution on behalf of the daughter of the deceased, Érika Cabello; the lawyer of the Canarian Institute of Equality (ICI), Jésica Hernández Peña, and the defense attorney agreed to request 18 years and six months in prison for the defendant for the crimes of murder and breach of sentence.
In addition, all the parties requested the presiding magistrate of the Court to order José Miguel Quintero a civil liability of 250,000 euros for the benefit of the victim’s daughter.
