The man accused of murdering his ex-partner in Santa Ursula (Tenerife) in July 2020, he announced to an acquaintance a month before the crime that he was “bitter” and “fed up” and that he was going to “get rid of” the victimwho for her part felt threatened by him.
On the second day of the trial being held in the fifth section of the Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, this witness, María Candelaria, who is the second niece of the accused, José Miguel QT, reported that after hearing these comments she did not think that reality was to kill Carolina FM
He has not corroborated in the oral hearing what he said in the first instance in court, as emphasized by the prosecutor and the popular accusation, exercised by the Canarian Institute of Equality: that the defendant also told him that he wanted to “get rid” of the victim, and has said he did not know if he had planned the crime.
José Miguel, alias ‘el pingui’, turned to this woman, once he had killed his ex, as well as other people, but given the seriousness of the facts and after telling him by phone that they would help him “they left him lying”, he said the head of the Judicial Police unit of the provincial command of the Civil Guard.
This witness, who directed the police investigation, has also indicated that the defendant told her that he killed her because she told him that she was going to report him.
After his desperate attempts, Jose Miguel He only received the support of Jonay MV, to whom he once told him he went to his house: “I killed her”, and then took him to the garage and showed him the body, after removing the sheet that he had placed on it.
The defendant, who was “calm” at all times, was advised to dispose of the body or to surrender.
His help, according to this witness, was limited to throwing away some bags whose content he said he did not know and that the Civil Guard suspects were sheets and blankets stained with blood and other remains of the victim.
Jonay MV, who is prosecuted for a crime of concealment, did not go to report what happened to the barracks but to a bar “to have a croissant and a whiskey”and there he told several people what he had witnessed, and it was the person in charge who called the Civil Guard.
Fernando MG, the victim’s ex-boyfriend, also declared this Tuesday, whom he welcomed for a few days after the defendant was convicted of two assaults and the court issued a restraining order.
This witness has indicated that he knew that despite everything they continued to see each other at José Miguel’s house, and that she told him that “she had a feeling that things were not going well” and that “she feared for her life.”
Estela, the victim’s daughter, told the jury court protected by a screen that her mother did not tell her about the attacks, that she learned from her father, and that she did not want him to see her because “her face was full of bruises” .
On the phone, she noted that her mother tried to “leave her out” about the episodes of violence she suffered at the hands of her partner and that she felt “a little strange”.
He talked to her almost daily, and suddenly he stopped answering the ‘whatsapp’ until finally the messages stopped coming, which set off the alarms.
Alfredo GM, godfather of the girl, who was 18 years old at the time, and in turn a close friend of Carolina, has confirmed that she “was afraid” of the defendant and that he threatened to harm her family.
He has slipped that José Miguel “was jealous” of the good relationship he had with Carolina, who sometimes called him “in secret” so that he would go look for her at the defendant’s house, but “the next day he would come back again.”
She has indicated that she told the victim on more than one occasion that she did not like the boyfriend she had taken and that he did not seem like a “good person”.
Two agents of the Civil Guard Judicial Police They have pointed out that José Miguel was “calm” during the 72 hours he was detained, and that he did not show signs of repentance or that he was under withdrawal syndrome.
They have revealed, yes, that when he was in the dungeons he tried to strangle himself with a sock.
They have also agreed that the confession of the crime was not spontaneous, since in fact at first he declared that he had not seen Carolina for days.
But the agents made him see that they knew more information than what he was trying to hide, so he was “doomed” to tell what happened.
“He confessed because he found himself in an unbearable situation. He couldn’t keep up his lies anymore,” said the deputy lieutenant in charge of the police investigation.
From there he was cooperative, told how he killed his ex, performing a ‘mataleón’, whose characteristics and consequences he explained to the Civil Guard agents, and took them to the septic tank where he had put the body.
The prosecutor, who, like the popular accusation, asks for 20 years and 9 months in prison for the defendant, appreciates the mitigating circumstance of confession, in addition to the aggravating circumstance of kinship.
The private prosecution raises its request to 28 years in prison and adds one more crime, that of habitual gender violence.
