The head of the Court of Violence against Women number 1 of Arona agreed to enter provisional prisoncommunicated and without bail for the man accused of stabbing his partner to death last Sunday night in the neighborhood of Armeñime, in the municipality of Adeje. The magistrate charges Mohamed, 44 years old and Moroccan nationality, with the crimes of consummated intentional homicide, with the aggravating circumstance of kinship, and habitual ill-treatment of the victim, Hayatas well as serious injuries to the eldest son of the affected.
Furthermore, the individual You will not be able to communicate or approach the children of the aforementioned woman within 500 meters, according to the data offered by the Communication Office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC). It should be remembered that these minors, two of whom belonged to a previous relationship of the murdered person and the two youngest to the marriage formed by Hayat and Mohamed, are currently in a reception center of the Social Rights Council of the Canary Islands Government.
According to the prison order issued by the judge, Hayat’s two eldest children, as well as her sister, confirmed that the woman allegedly suffered episodes of ill-treatment on a regular basis. In fact, days before the fatal attack, neighbors heard screams in the family’s apartment. In addition, the woman, also of Moroccan origin, denounced Mohamed on December 28 for gender violence. However, two days later she did not want to testify against her partner or ask for any protection measure, despite the fact that the head of the Violence Against Women Court offered them.
not to leave traces
The older children of the victim and several eyewitnesses assured the Civil Guard that the defendant, aware that Hayat was finishing her shift as a receptionist at a hotel in Playa Paraíso at 11:00 p.m., waited for her on José Espronceda street. When the woman arrived, he began to argue with her about their children in common. Later, he took out a large knife, about 30 centimeters, and stabbed her in the chest several times.
The eldest son of the deceased tried to prevent the deadly assault and for that reason he suffered cuts on his hands. And the second son, together with several neighbors, tried to cover the wounds that the affected woman had. In addition to the knife, the agents of the Territorial Team of the Judicial Police of the South of Tenerife intervened two latex gloves, one at the scene and another among Mohamed’s belongings, with the aim of not leaving traces, which which demonstrates that the crime was not a spontaneous act, but premeditated, as stated in the order issued yesterday.
In addition, the aforementioned man sent a WhatsApp message to several contacts in which he warned that he was going to kill his partner. This information also confirms that he had planned the violent death of Hayat.
Flight risk
One of the reasons for the admission of a detainee to provisional detention is that there is a risk of flight. In this case, the judge recalls that, after killing her partner and injuring one of his stepsons, the North African individual tried to flee the place, for which reason he had to be reduced by several neighbors and the aforementioned minor. injured. These people reduced Mohamed to the ground until the Adeje Local Police arrived, put him in shackles and put him in the radio patrol vehicle.
The magistrate also states that the high prison sentence that could correspond to him for the three crimes that are attributed to him at the moment (up to 23 years in prison in total; 15 for intentional homicide, five for serious injuries and another three for habitual abuse) , justifies depriving him of his liberty until the trial is held, since there is a real risk that he will escape to Morocco to escape the action of Justice.
without roots
In addition, there is no record that Mohamed has family roots in Tenerife or the Canary Islands, regardless of his two young children, nor does he have work or social roots of any kind.
In the proceedings provided yesterday by the investigators of the Territorial Team of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard of the South of Tenerife, there is also the preliminary report of the autopsy carried out on the victim on Monday morning. The defendant was transferred yesterday afternoon from the Arona Palace of Justice to the Tenerife II prison.
