He pretended that they had suffered a traffic accident on May 6 and that his wife had died as a result of the crash but now, after a long investigation, it has been confirmed that the woman died the victim of an episode of male violence.
Everything indicates that the aggressor, a 41-year-old Civil Guard who took his own life 12 hours after the events, would have introduced the lifeless body of his partner, 39, into the vehicle, would have started the march and at the height of Villamena, in the metropolitan area of ??Granada, he would have left the road with the car.
After the accident, he would have used an iron bar to hit the bumper in order to make believe that the death of the woman would have been caused by the impact of the vehicle against some bushes. But there were some data and indications that did not add up, so Homicide began to investigate the case.
And today has been when the Government Delegation against Gender Violence has confirmed the sexist crime, bringing the number of women murdered for this cause in Spain since the beginning of January 2023 to 37.
It was some witnesses to the accident who alerted the emergencies that a vehicle had left the road and, initially, the death of the woman was limited to a death due to a traffic accident. But soon other hypotheses were opened, such as a homicide prior to the incident.
The Homicide Group of the Civil Guard Command of Granada and the Judicial Police have worked with this hypothesis, after, at first, the body was presented at the scene of the accident, on the A-44, at the height from the town of Cozvíjar, a temperature that was not compatible with death on the spot, in addition to there being no signs that the accident was so serious as to be an obvious cause of it.
On the one hand, and in accordance with the stipulated protocol, all those killed in car accidents are subjected to an autopsy and in this case, the report points to suffocation as the cause of the woman’s death.
Now, it will be Court number 5 of Motril, with jurisdiction over violence against women, who will carry out the proceedings they deem appropriate, although there will be no penalty since the husband of the murdered woman committed suicide hours later.
Sources close to this investigation have pointed out that the thesis of the possible previous homicide is “very evident” based on evidence that was presented from the same afternoon of the incident, to which members of the 061 Health Emergency Center and the Civil Guard of Traffic, that nothing could be done to save the life of this woman, so the judicial protocol was activated.
It was on May 8 when the Granada town of Motril, where the couple lived, said their last goodbye to the couple, shocked by the double loss. It was still thought that the woman would have died in the accident and that her husband, hours later, would have taken his own life at his home. The couple had two minor daughters in common who were orphaned in this new sexist crime.
In Andalusia alone, 12 women have been murdered so far this year, and another 12 minors have been orphaned in the community because of this scourge.
