The investigation to find the culprit in the murder of Helena Jubany has suffered a severe setback. Time is running out and the possibilities are running out to find the perpetrator of the events that on December 2, 2001 drugged and threw a 27-year-old woman into a void in a Sabadell building. The latest DNA samples recovered from the sweater the victim was wearing on the day of the crime do not match that of the main suspect, Santi Laiglesia. The sample taken from the investigated “is not compatible” with the mixture of genetic profiles obtained from the back of the brown sweater “that Jubany was wearing.
Investigators, the victim’s family, and the judge held high hopes for a positive DNA test result. It was in 2021 when the magistrate accepted, at the initiative of Jubany’s lawyer, that the clothes he was wearing the night of the crime be analyzed in case, with the new techniques, DNA samples of his possible murderers could be found. In July 2022, the results were positive as well as hopeful. The police lab found an “inconclusive” mix of “at least two people” on the jumper. Now, almost a year later, this test has not served to advance. The DNA does not correspond to either of the two investigated for the crime, Santi Laiglesia and Xavi Jiménez. Genetic tests found on the victim’s body also came back negative.
The judge, in an order issued this Tuesday, asks the parties if other tests can be carried out to help clarify the facts and gives them five days to propose them. Jiménez and Laiglesia are for now the only defendants and no one else can be investigated since the facts are prescribed. The first was charged one day before the 20th anniversary of the crime and therefore criminal responsibility expired. The judge considers that “he actively participated in the murder of Jubany”. He tried to get closer to the victim but was rejected, the judge said. to check if her DNA matched that found on the sweater.” “This evidence would be decisive in order to substantiate the guilty participation in the death,” the judge stressed at the time. With the negative result of this test, the murder of Helena Jubany is further from resolved.
