Permanent prison for killing his ex-partner in Vic after raping her

The Court of Barcelona has sentenced to permanent prison reviewable and another seven years in prison for Jorge Luis TS for murder his ex-partner in Vic after raping her. The court withdraws the country and authority of his minor son, imposes 10 years of supervised release, to be executed when the custodial sentence ends, the prohibition to approach the victim’s family and to pay them a total compensation of 650,000 euros .

The events date back to the early hours of October 20, 2019. That night, Jorge Luis TS convinced the sister of his ex-partner and her husband to go out partying with the four of them and thus win back the girl. Already at the woman’s house and taking advantage of the fact that she is He was in a state of semiconsciousness due to “the significant state of drunkenness that he presented, and without being able to express his consent”, he raped her, according to the sentence of the magistrate Gemma Garcés Sesé, who presided over the jury trial to which the accused was subjected.

Once the victim fell asleep, the defendant, “with the intention of ending his life or, at least accepting that his attack could lead to such a result”, placed his hands around the neck of his ex-partner and “pressed, preventing her from breathing”, until she suffocated her. The judge maintains that the defendant carried out his aggression “suddenly”, taking advantage of the time, the tiredness and the drunken state in which the woman was, that, in this way, “I cannot offer resistance or opposition”.

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The defendant had maintained a relationship with the deceased, “analogous to marriage”, the resolution specifies, for several years. As a result, they had a son. Days before that meeting, in October, they had broken up. Jorge Luis TS “carried out” his action “with total lack of consideration and absolute disregard for the condition of a woman” of the victim, the magistrate emphasizes. The story considered proven in the sentence includes the guilty verdict that the jury issued in its day. The ruling highlights that despite the fact that there were no direct witnesses to the crime, the popular court reached its conclusion of guilt “through diverse and plural evidence.”

One of the tests evaluated was a videorecorded by the defendant, in which the victim’s state of intoxication was “clearly” stated and “her inability to stand upright”, not being able to keep her eyes open, and her difficulties in speaking. The jury also took into account the watsaps exchanged between the accused and his ex-partner in the days prior to the crime and the woman’s refusal to have sexual relations with him, “standing out, for its clarity and firmness”, one of them in which the murdered woman literally told him: “no sex” The forensic experts determined that the death was caused by suffocation, “distorting” the defendant’s efforts to present a scenario “simulating” a suicide, totally ruling out hanging due to the injuries he suffered in the neck. in which there were no signs of a fight in the home.