He supreme court (TS) has given firmness to the successive sentences that have sentenced a resident of Icod de los Vinos, in Tenerife, to 18.5 years in prison for try to kill your partnerrob with violence and threaten to kill the woman’s son.
The events occurred in March 2020, when the now convicted man stabbed his partner three times, whom he will also have to compensate with 40,000 euros and almost 88,000 to the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS).
In addition, he was accused of having transferred 1,700 euros from her account to his and warning the representatives of the school where her son was at that he was going to kill him when he returned home.
The Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife considered that the aggression had been committed treasonously, asserting his physical superiority, with special cruelty and the aggravating factors of kinship and robbery with violence.
The only extenuating circumstance that he could invoke was that of having repaired the damage by returning the amounts of money stolen, but at the same time he is ordered to stay 500 meters away from the woman for ten years after his release from prison.
At the beginning of last year, the criminal chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) positioned itself in the same direction and even in its ruling affected the aggravating circumstance of cruelty, considering that the third stab was dealt to his partner ” with wickedness of luxury”.
The defendant had been in a relationship with the victim since August 2019, and in January 2020 he began to live with her and her son in a house in Icod de Los Vinos.
The events took place in March of that year when, around 9 in the morning, the man returned home after taking the minor to school, began a discussion about the expenses they had and loan applications that she was aware of.among other issues.
At one point the woman told him that she preferred to end the relationship and leave the house, taking their belongings.
At first the man did not show any opposition but shortly after, when she was in the bathroom, the defendant entered by surprise with a large kitchen knife with the intention of ending her life.
Since the attack was surprising, the victim could not resist, so not only did she receive a stab wound to the abdomen, but the assailant kept the knife stuck while she tried to get up.
Once the weapon was removed from his body, he told her on several occasions that he was not going to leave the house alive, and in fact, 40 minutes passed until the victim tried to leave the house to ask for help.
But the assailant intercepted her, grabbed her and when she was on the ground he stabbed her a second time, also in the abdomen. These two injuries caused considerable bleeding and great physical pain, while his response was to repeat to her that she was going to die.
In this state, The convicted person answered a call to his partner’s phone that came from his youngest son’s school, at which time the convicted person informed the representative of the school, telling him that if the child returned home he was going to kill him.
In this situation, with the woman not only attacked but also alarmed by the threats against the child, the attacker demanded that the victim provide him with the details of her cards and accounts of which she was the joint owner with her mother.
Once he gave him the bank codes, he made a cut of about six inches along the neck, but this wound did not affect vital organs or vessels or the respiratory tract.
The assailant believed that he had ended his life after hitting him several times and checking that he was not moving, and he took the woman’s car keys, her documentation and mobile phones and left the house.
Then he ordered two bank transfers from the woman’s checking account to his for 1,700 euros, of which he withdrew 1,300 at ATMs and sent a message to his sister saying that he had stabbed his partner.
When the assailant had left the house, the victim managed to get up, opened the door and dragged herself down the stairs to the street, where she was rescued by passers-by, who notified the police officers and health workers.
Picked up and treated by a medicalized ambulance, she was taken to an emergency medical center and, given the seriousness of her injuries and abundant loss of blood, it was decided to transfer her to the University Hospital, where she underwent surgery.
As a result of the attack, the victim required surgical and psychiatric treatment and it took him almost six months to recover, although he continues to suffer sequelae of the attack.
During the following hours, members of the Civil Guard contacted the man, on successive occasions, to negotiate his delivery, to which he finally agreed at almost ten o’clock at night.
When he was arrested, he reported that he had the knife with which he caused the attack inside the vehicle, as well as his wife’s documentation and card and the 1,335 euros extracted.
The Supreme Court endorses the decision of the Provincial Court regarding the years of sentence imposed, considering that the defendant did everything possible to carry out the murder, and that if the woman remained alive it was because she believed that he had killed her.
He then left the house to carry out the robbery that was carried out through intimidation and violence once he obtained the victim’s account keys.
