The Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced Julián Ovejero, known as the “Grindr killer”, to 20 years in prison for the murder of a man, whom he stabbed 63 times after having a sexual encounter with him through an application. quotes.
According to the sentence, to which Efe has had access, the convicted man committed the murder with treachery and cruelty and must also compensate the deceased’s sister with 24,140 euros.
According to the jury’s verdict, the sentence considers it proven that on February 23, 2018, after having had sexual relations with his victim, Ovejero stabbed him in various parts of his body at the door of his home.
After causing the first injuries, he dragged him inside the house and continued attacking him with a double-edged weapon about 12 centimeters long, stabbing him up to 63 times.
Ovejero attacked his victim “suddenly and surprisingly,” “knowing that he was intoxicated and under the influence of toxic and narcotic drugs” and subjected him to “unnecessary suffering,” the sentence states.
The events occurred in an apartment in Madrid, where the convicted person went after meeting N.Z., 35 years old and of Puerto Rican nationality, through the Wapo application, although both had already met on other occasions through other means such as Grindr.
N.Z. He was found dead a day later and Ovejero, who was 23 years old at the time of the crime, was arrested in September 2021 in Argentina, where he is from.
In the trial, Ovejero acknowledged before the jury all the facts of which he was accused, which is why the Prosecutor’s Office reduced his request for a sentence from 25 to 20 years in prison, to which both the private prosecution and the defense adhered.
The defendant thus changed his 2022 statement before the judge, in which he said that he went crazy and that he was on drugs.
