SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife requests a sentence of 21 years in prison for a man of British origin, with paranoid schizophrenia and a recognized disability of 67%, for killing his father with 54 stab wounds in the Los Abrigos neighborhood, in the municipality of Granadilla (Tenerife).
The indictment, collected by Europa Press, indicates that the young man lived in Estepona with his mother and traveled to Tenerife to spend time with his father and work with him in the gardening company he owns.
At one point on June 1, 2020, father and son had an argument at the home they shared for domestic reasons and the defendant, who was still angry with his father for another argument the night before, took a knife with a blade of at least 15 centimeters long and approximately four centimeters wide and with a single cutting edge, surprisingly, and without his father having any chance of defense, he stabbed him a total of 54 times, seven of them in the neck and thorax, four in the left arm, and 43 in the back.
The latter, even, when his father lay defenseless on the ground, face down and without any possibility of defense or survival, “increasing with this, unnecessarily, the pain of the victim, while he was dying.”
The victim’s son – who leaves behind two other children who live in the United Kingdom – had been treated in recent years by the Mental Health Unit of the Virgen de la Victoria University Hospital in Estepona and months.
In the month of March, given the suspicion of psychotic decompensation of his pathology, reports the Prosecutor’s Office, he was prescribed an increase in the dose of quetiapine and at the time of the events he suffered some psychiatric decompensation, which could have affected, even slightly, in their ability to understand the illegality of the act and act accordingly.
The Prosecutor’s Office considers that the facts constitute a crime of murder and also requests ten years of probation with psychiatric treatment appropriate to his pathology and compensation of 300,000 euros for the other two children of the victim.
The trial, with a Jury Court, will be held on March 17 at 9:30 a.m. in the second section of the Provincial Court.
