The Court of Seville has sentenced a man to seven years in prison for crimes of injury and illegal detention, committed by cutting his partner’s neck with a knife, causing a bleeding wound and repeatedly preventing him from leaving the house to seek help. , an extreme that the defendant made when she expressed her decision to end their sentimental relationship as a result of the insults he inflicted on her.
In a sentence issued on July 7 and collected by Europa Press, the Fourth Section of the Seville Court declares it proven that the defendant, identified as José G.V.; and the victim began a relationship “similar to the marital relationship in November 2021, living on weekends at his home”, although the woman ended said relationship due to “the insults” she received from the defendant, who “became he was jealous” of his partner’s friendships with other men and exercised “acts of control.
However, at the man’s “insistence of reconciliation”, according to the account of proven facts, she agreed to resume the relationship on the condition that he refrain from drinking alcohol.
In this context, according to the sentence, on the night of April 23 to 24, 2022, both were in a local in La Puebla de Cazalla with some friends and “drank alcohol”, returning together to the defendant’s home, where they discussed the 6 hours of the morning because the defendant would have recriminated the woman who had “greeted a friend at the bar”; end after which he seriously insulted her twice, according to the account of proven facts.
Given this, the victim conveyed to the accused “her intention to leave the relationship” again and it was at that moment, according to the report of proven facts of the sentence, when the accused went to the bathroom of the house and left it armed. with a “machete-type” knife, with which “with the intention of ending the life” of his partner, he put the knife to his neck while telling him “you are going to leave me, but I will take my life and you I’ll take you ahead.”
The defendant, according to the account of proven facts, “slowly stuck the knife into the neck” of his partner, who, faced with this situation, to try to get the defendant to “stop”, told him “that he loved him and that he was not going to leave”, making him remove the knife from his neck, although he had already suffered a bleeding wound.
For this reason, the woman “tried to take her mobile phone to ask for help”, but the defendant, always according to the conviction, prevented her from doing so and threw the terminal “repeatedly against the ground” until it was “destroyed”.
Furthermore, according to the Court’s resolution, although the victim asked the accused to leave the house because “he was bleeding a lot,” he replied “that that was what he wanted, for him to bleed out,” even rubbing his own blood on her. face.
The conviction also details the woman’s subsequent attempts to leave the house, but on all occasions he “prevented her from leaving” and, later, with the warning that there was going to be “more blood”, a cut was made himself. on his left wrist, which began to bleed.
Given this, the woman reportedly asked the accused to go to the bathroom to wash the wound, which he did himself, at which point the victim took the opportunity to “run away from the house” and go out to the street, where she was helped by a passerby, but not before the accused first threatened that he was going to “kill” her, always according to the story of proven facts.
As a result of this story, the Fourth Section of the Seville Court has condemned José V.G. to three years in prison for a crime of injury with the aggravating factor of gender and kinship and the mitigating factors of repairing the damage and intoxication due to alcohol consumption, since he admits that the defendant has deposited 5,000 euros as civil liability and acted with his capacities moderately affected by the combined consumption of alcohol and drugs against depression.
Likewise, it imposes four more years in prison for a crime of illegal detention with the same aggravating and mitigating circumstances and a ten-year ban on approaching or communicating with the victim.
In addition, he is fined for a crime of damages and the obligation to compensate his ex-partner in the amount of 15,000 euros, according to the conviction.
