A man sentenced to 29 years in prison for being responsible for the **murder in Lanzarote in 2015 of Juan Carlos Tejera** has accepted another 12 years this Tuesday for being responsible for a robbery at a jewelry store in Tacoronte (Tenerife), of which **eight are for the kidnapping of the owner's daughter**, three for the theft, and one for injuries. During the hearing at the Provincial Court of Tenerife, the aggravating factor of recidivism and the mitigating factor of reparation of the damage, by having returned the 30,000 euros for the value of the stolen jewelry, were taken into account in the imposition of the sentence. The events took place in December 2021 when the accused, along with four other unidentified individuals, used a vehicle with an altered license plate to avoid identification and parked in a hypermarket. Once there, they waited for the daughter of the jewelry store owner, who managed the business, to appear as she was going to get into her car after closing the store. At that moment, two of the perpetrators lifted her off the ground and forced her into the vehicle against her will while punching her in the face. Inside the vehicle, **they tied her hands and feet**, using plastic zip ties to prevent her from moving, defending herself, or attempting to escape, while continuing to assault her. They then snatched the jewelry store keys from her purse and began to question her about the establishment, threatening to throw her out of the moving vehicle if she did not provide the information they requested. They all demanded that she provide them with the codes for the store's alarms, the safe's delay times, and how to open it, warning her that if she wanted to see her husband and son again, she had to give them the real data, which she did out of fear of suffering harm. After this, **they covered her eyes with duct tape**, to prevent her from recognizing them or the place where they had stopped and where they left her while one of the perpetrators watched her and the others continued in the car. They then returned to the jewelry store covering their faces with balaclavas, scarves, and wigs, and using the keys they had obtained and the codes they were given, they accessed the premises and broke display cases, locks, and trays. These damages were expertly valued at 551 euros, while the jewelry they stole was **valued at 129,000 euros**, after which they left the scene.
"Someone will find you"
Upon achieving their objective and seeing that the data provided was true, they notified the person guarding the woman to abandon her with her eyes covered and hands tied, telling her: "someone will find you".
She remained in this situation for several minutes until she managed to free herself from the restraints, suffering from this incident multiple contusions, a head injury, cervicalgia, and post-traumatic stress disorder, injuries that took 114 days to heal, preventing her from carrying out her usual tasks.
As a consequence, the victim suffers from a neurotic disorder and aesthetic sequelae with moderate aesthetic damage.
The accused was thus part of a criminal organization that, as it transpired at the time, used violence described as extreme, including drilling knees or administering electric shocks in the bathroom, a technique that was repeated in the south of Tenerife where they held a businessman captive.
Kidnapping and murder in Lanzarote
In the case of the kidnapping and murder with malice aforethought carried out in Lanzarote, it has been proven that they intercepted the victim in the garage of his house, tied him hand and foot, and beat him all over his body.
They then put him in the back seat of his vehicle, in which they took him to a cave located in the rubble dump of Montaña Mina in Arrecife, which they had prepared and in which his lifeless body was found.
Following the jury trial held at the Audiencia de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, each member of the gang was sentenced to a 29-year prison sentence, later upheld by the Supreme Court (TS).