A jury will judge today, Tuesday, a man who faces sentences totaling 17 years in prison for allegedly killing a lottery seller in order to steal the money she kept in her house in Albox, events that occurred in this town in September 2021.
Judicial sources have indicated that the jury will be constituted in the first session and the questioning of witnesses will be carried out; while the remaining sessions are intended for the testimony of witnesses, civil guards, experts and forensic experts, so that the final conclusions and reports will be presented on December 16.
The prosecutor’s statement indicates that the accused AGF had already been sentenced in 2019 to one year in prison for robbery.
He added that he knew the victim, since he was a street vendor of lottery tickets and they both lived “just 200 metres away”, and because the defendant had asked him for money on several occasions.
According to the prosecutor, at around three in the morning on 9 September 2021, the man went to the victim’s home to “obtain illicit enrichment”, since he knew that the woman usually had cash from the sale of lottery tickets.
He claims that when the victim opened the door he stabbed her multiple times to end her life, in the base and side of her neck, as well as in the chest and hands, in the latter case because the woman tried to defend herself.
The lottery winner died of hemorrhagic shock, as one of the stab wounds hit her jugular and caused a “major loss of blood.”
When she was already dead on the floor, the accused allegedly searched different rooms in the house and stole a black bag containing the victim’s documents and an «unquantified» amount of money, as well as two mobile phones.
The victim’s body was found around two in the afternoon the following day, half-naked and lying in a «large pool of blood.»
For these alleged acts, the prosecutor is demanding 12 years in prison for the crime of homicide, as well as five more years in prison for the crime of robbery with violence in an inhabited house, in which the aggravating circumstance of recidivism occurs.
In addition, he is demanding compensation of 90,000 euros for two of the deceased’s three children, since the third is not seeking civil action against the alleged perpetrator of the crime.