The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office requests four years and six months in prison for J.S.M., a man who tried to murder his mother inside the house they shared in Madrid by “repeatedly” hitting her on the head with his crutch, “while the tried to protect herself with her arms”, reports EP.
The trial begins this Tuesday at the Provincial Court of Madrid. The representative of the Public Ministry charges him with a crime of attempted homicide and another of resisting agents of the authority.
The brief from the Prosecutor’s Office indicates that as a result of these events the woman suffered various injuries that took seventy days to heal. After the assault, which occurred around 1:00 p.m. on February 10, 2022, the defendant left the family home with a knife in his hand, which was seized by the police.
In addition, after asking the agents to stop their attitude before being arrested, the defendant, “with the intention of undermining his physical integrity and with clear contempt for the principle of authority” began to struggle with one of them, who was finally injured.
At the time of the facts, the defendant, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, had seriously altered his intellectual and volitional faculties. The defendant has been deprived of liberty for this cause since March 21, 2022.
