Francisco Javier García, el Cuco, and his mother, Rosalía García, they will be tried from this Thursday in Seville accused of concocting a plan to deceive the court that judged the death of the young Sevillian Marta del Castillo in January 2009 and they face sentences of between eight months and two years in prison.
The criminal court 7 of Seville will host the hearing until June 9 and will judge Cuco and his mother for allegedly lying in the trial held in 2011 against the four adults accused of Marta’s crimewhich occurred on January 24, 2009, when Francisco Javier García was a minor.
the cuckoo He was sentenced to two years and eleven months in a juvenile center for covering up the crime for which Miguel Carcaño, boyfriend of the murdered girl, was sentenced to 21 years.
A court of instruction in Seville charged Cuco, his mother and his father, Ángel Manuel Romero, now deceased, with the crime of false testimony, since the judge understands that “all of them concocted a plan whose sole purpose was to deceive the court about what really happened on January 24, 2009″.
The Prosecutor’s Office asks for Cuco and his mother eight months in prison and a fine of 1,500 euros while the private prosecution brought by the parents of Marta del Castillo claims two years in prison and a fine of 1,800 euros.
The magistrate recalls that on October 25, 2011, when he was of legal age, Cuco testified as a witness in the trial of the elderly and he assured “falsely” that on the afternoon of January 24, 2009 he had not been at Miguel Carcaño’s housewhere the young woman was killed.
In fact, the instructor points out that the evidence “has shown” contrary to what was declared by the three investigated before the court that on the evening of January 24, 2009, Cuco “was” at the home of León XIII, who that same day he was with a friend until 8:30 or 8:45 p.m. and that he saw other friends “from 10:30 p.m. on the same day.”
She also says that it is not true that around 11:30 p.m. that day she was in the vicinity of her home with her mother’s husband when he was going to throw out the garbage or that Cuco’s mother and her partner were outside their home. house, at the La Portada bar, until 4:30 or 5:00 on the 25th”, as stated by the mother.
In the trial that begins this Thursday it is planned to hear the testimony of up to thirteen witnesses, including Miguel Carcaño-quoted on May 31- before the criminal judge 7 of Seville, Olga Cecilia Simón.
The judge has agreed to the request of the family of Marta del Castillo for Carcaño to be transferred to Seville from the Herrera de la Mancha prison in order that appear in person and not through a video conference from jail.
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Finally, the trial will not be televisedsince the judge asked the parties if they agreed to broadcast it live but has accepted the defense’s proposal and it will be followed by journalists inside the room, regardless of whether a ‘silent’ can be made for television.
The trial on the murder of Marta del Castillo ended with the sentence of Miguel Carcaño to 20 years in prison for a crime of murder while the rest of the accused were acquitted, his brother Francisco Javier Delgado, his girlfriend María García, and Samuel Benítez, friend of Carcaño, a decision later ratified by the Supreme Court, which only added one year and three more months to the prison sentence imposed on Carcaño.