One of the reasons wielded by the representative of the Public Ministry is that he disagrees with Handrick’s sentence for the attempted murder of his youngest son, Jonas, that he fled from the scene of the events on the run and that allowed the rapid clarification of the facts. It should be remembered that the prosecutor requested for the aforementioned crime 25 years in prison for Handrick and the magistrate has imposed 16.
Furthermore, the prosecutor explains that the magistrate did not apply the gender aggravating circumstance.
The Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife sentenced to permanent reviewable prison and two more sentences that add up to 39 years in prison for the German citizen who in the Easter 2019 killed his wife and one of his children with a stone and tried to end the life of his second sonwithout success because he managed to flee and survive his walk through a distant and uninhabited place.
The Fifth Section of the Provincial Court today made public the sentence that gives legal form to the guilty verdict issued by the jury on February 4. The popular court found the defendant guilty of a crime of murder with the aggravating circumstance of treachery and kinship in reference to his son (for which the judicial authority now imposes a reviewable permanent prison sentence), of another crime of murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship in reference to his wife (for which he is sentenced to 23 years) and of a third party of attempted murder with the aggravating circumstances of treachery and kinship in reference to his second son, for which he is charged 16 more years of prison.
The presiding magistrate of the jury imposes on the defendant a reviewable permanent prison sentence for the first offences, 23 years in prison for the second and 16 years in prison for the third.
The sentence declares proven that in the morning hours of April 23, 2019, in an isolated area of the municipality of Adeje, known as Hoyo del Agua, the accused attacked his wife, and with the intention of causing her death “he hit her repeatedly with force using both his hands and a stone until he managed to make it fall to the ground inside a cave, at which point he hit it with a stone weighing about eight and a half kilograms until it crushed its skull and finally caused its death “.
It adds that the accused, in order to carry out such an act, had intentionally led his wife and their two sons, aged seventeen, to an isolated place where they could not receive any help, “without the possibility of of effective defense.
According to the Chamber, when the accused’s eldest son came out in defense of his mother, he was “violently and repeatedly beaten by his father with his hands and using stones until he fell to the ground inside the cave.” There the condemned man killed him in the same way as his mother.
The ruling adds that, after witnessing his father assault his mother and brother, the youngest son of German “decided to flee the place, leaving the accused, in the belief that he would not survive, given his ignorance of a narrow and lonely terrain “.
In addition to the criminal convictions, the sentence imposes various accessory penalties on the defendant and requires him to pay compensation worth tens of thousands of euros.
The ruling is subject to appeal before the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC).
