Rosario Porto, convicted of the murder of her daughter Asunta Basterra, took her own life on November 18, 2020 in her Brieva prison cell (Ávila). Now, new revelations shed more light on the final moments of her life, especially through letters she sent to a trusted prisoner six months before her tragic outcome.
In the letters addressed to a prisoner identified as Patricia, Porto expressed her anguish and despair over her situation in prison. In one of them, dated May 6, 2020, Porto wrote: “They have stolen my tobacco and cards, and they have lowered the limit of my pension card, not to mention the confinement to which I have been forced.” . The letter, full of crossouts and written hastily, reflected the woman’s turbulent state of mind.
In another part of the letter, Porto requested Patricia’s help, asking her to lend him a telephone card so he could communicate with people important to her. “I would need you to lend me a phone card, communicating with who prices, at the time they call me up to date, is essential for me now,” she wrote.
The trusted prisoner, Patricia, shared details about the relationship between the two in an exclusive interview with the program ‘And now Sonsoles’ on Antena 3. “She always told me, why do they do this to me, they just want to see me sink, the whole “The world wants to see me sunk,” Patricia revealed, highlighting Porto’s deep suffering in prison.
José Luis Gutiérrez Aranguren, Rosario Porto’s lawyer, commented on the same program that Patricia was a great support for Porto in prison and suggested that Porto’s death could have been avoided. “I think Rosario’s death could have been avoided,” he said.
Years before his suicide, Alfonso Basterra, Asunta’s father, also left a letter predicting her tragic fate. In it, he expressed a desire to be reunited with her daughter upon her death, after having failed to protect her during her life.
These new revelations shed light on Rosario Porto’s last moments before her tragic suicide. Her case, known as the Nenúfar Case, has been one of the most high-profile and controversial in Spanish judicial history, and her death in prison marks the end of a story marked by pain and tragedy.
