The children of the man who murdered his ex-wife in Torrejón de Ardoz in March 2021 have questioned in the trial the gender aggravation raised by the Madrid Prosecutor’s Office, stating that their mother mistreated their father and that they lived through an ordeal of discussions in which her mother always had to be right.
Julián P. sits in the dock for the crime of malicious murder, facts for which the prosecutor and the accusations request 25 years in prison. His lawyer proposes that in the sentence a complete defense be issued for depressive disorder and, on a subsidiary basis, an incomplete one with extenuating outburst. The accusations consider that in the murder there is an aggravating circumstance of kinship and another of gender, which represents a significant increase in the future sentence to be imposed as a result of the ‘only yes means yes’ Law.
The accused, who will testify on December 14, maintains that his ex-wife abused him and made his life miserable since they divorced. According to his version, on the morning of March 2, 2021, he went to see her ex-partner with the intention of dealing with a problem they had with her youngest son and not to kill her.
The prosecutor attributes the murder to an act of “domination” and “contempt” towards the victim for the mere fact of being a woman, “since he never accepted the breakup of the relationship or that the woman could maintain new romantic relationships.” Other relatives of the murdered woman have explained that he had harassed her since they divorced her, but she did not dare to report it because she feared that they would impose a restraining order against her eldest son, who lived with her father. she.
Faced with this, the children of the couple maintain that their mother mistreated their father and treated him badly on a daily basis, denying that their mother was starting a relationship with another man. They assure that they do not hold a grudge against his father and one of them affirms that he still loves her the same as before what happened that morning. After concluding the session, they were allowed to give their parent a hug.
In his statement, the eldest son reported that on the day of the events he had several conversations with his father, before and after the crime. A few minutes after the murder, the accused called him and commented: “I did it, I killed your mother, take care of your brother.”
After that, the young man led the Police to the specific point where the aggressor was, who was waiting for them on a street near a police station. “My father was going to turn himself in but he wanted to give me a hug because he knew he was going to go to jail,” he said.
The boy has reported alleged episodes of abuse from his mother to his father and to him, facts that he claims he never reported for fear that the situation would get worse. In fact, he has said that it was he who encouraged her father to divorce her mother, denying that the defendant harassed the woman and wanted to return to her.
“My father had depression and took medication. My mother didn’t care about anything. My father was devastated because she underestimated him,” said the son, indicating that he prevented his father’s several suicide attempts on the train tracks. Furthermore, he has denied that he told his father to kill his mother, as his maternal grandmother stated yesterday. “Never, that is a lie. It is an injustice,” he stated.
With a similar story, the couple’s other son has said that his mother used to lock his brother without justification in the bathroom and during moments of arguments with his father, she would send him to the room so that he would not hear the screams.
“The situation at home was horrible,” the boy told the court, stating that he still loves his father the same after what happened. “He is my father and no one is going to take him away from me,” he stressed.
Faced with this story, the niece of the deceased said that her uncle used to harass the victim and would bother her at her old job in a garage. “She told him how pretty she was getting after the divorce,” she noted in her statement.
National Police agents who appeared yesterday indicated that the accused bought just half an hour before the crime a serrated knife, a construction trowel, a cutter and some glazier’s gloves, objects that were found next to the victim’s body and that They suggest that he had planned the murder.
