The second section of the Provincial Court of Ciudad Real has condemned J.M.L.E. as the perpetrator of a crime of homicide with intent, to a sentence of six years and three months in prison, as well as to compensate M.R.C.G. and to D.R.M., parents of the deceased with 48,000 euros each as social responsibility, as well as to R.A., D and D.S.R.C., brothers of the victim, 19,000 euros each as compensation.
J.M.L.E., a bookseller by profession, shot and killed a man who entered his country house, located in the Parque Forestal de La Atalaya in Ciudad Real, to steal tools.
The Court’s ruling, to which Europa Press has had access, includes the incomplete defense of mental alteration and the simple mitigating defense of confession, to establish the sentence after the guilty verdict established by the popular jury last Saturday, April 13.
Given these circumstances, the Prosecutor’s Office, which initially requested twelve years in prison for the octogenarian, had already reduced its request to six years after hearing the jury’s verdict.
The event occurred in the early morning of August 1, 2021 when a man entered the defendant’s country house and was startled by noises inside the plot. After waking up, the accused took one of his shotguns – he had various hunting weapons inside the house – and went outside the building.
Inside his plot he was able to observe, at a distance of 15 meters, a person carrying an unlit chainsaw and other tools that he had stolen from the tool room of the country house.
When the accused realized that he was being robbed, he went to where the alleged thief was to shoot him in the chest at a distance of five meters and without prior warning “with the intention of ending the life” of the intruder.
Immediately afterwards, the accused fired a second shot from behind, hitting the back of the chest.
Both shots caused the intruder fatal injuries that ended the life of this person who had multiple criminal records for robberies.
