The man who admitted to having killed with a hammer and having wanted to rob his mother-in-law in the terraced house where he lived in San Mateo, Gran Canaria, on September 13, 2023, will be tried next week by a Jury of the Audiencia de Las Palmas.
According to information provided this Thursday by the press office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, it is possible that the **prosecution and the defense reach an agreement** and the accused accepts a conviction for these acts for which the Public Prosecutor's Office initially seeks a sentence of 24 years and eight months in prison for the crimes of murder and robbery.
In addition, the Public Prosecutor's Office claims from the defendant the payment of compensation of 80,000 euros for each of the deceased's children, for the moral damages caused, and 11,000 euros to the victim's brother, for the 22,000 euros he stole from the home, half of which corresponded to him as his father's inheritance.In its indictment, the Public Prosecutor's Office states that the accused lived with his wife and daughter on the upper floor of the terraced house and that on that day, September 13, around 1:00 PM, he forced his way into his mother-in-law's home to steal 22,000 euros that he knew she had withdrawn from the bank after the father's death.
A blow with a hammer
The defendant took advantage of that occasion because his mother-in-law was out of the house, although she arrived 20 minutes later and, while it could not be determined when she met the accused or if she had any conversation or argument with him, when they both met in the living room, near the entrance door, **the defendant struck her on the head with a hammer**And, according to the prosecutor, with the intention of ending his mother-in-law's life, he continued to hit her repeatedly with the hammer on the back of the head, which caused her death.The accused subsequently registered his mother-in-law's bag and took the cash she had in her purse, leaving the home and taking with him a plastic bag with coins and the 22,000 euros he had managed to find hidden in an envelope among the bed linen in the master bedroom, leaving his mother-in-law lying on the floor in a pool of blood, the indictment states.The victim was found by a neighbor, a national police officer by profession, who that same night, at the behest of the victim's relatives, worried because she was not answering the phone, entered the home through the back door, the glass pane of which the accused had broken to gain access to the house.
The accused, after being arrested, admitted in a second statement that on that same day he had entered his mother-in-law's house with the intention of taking money and that he hit her once with a hammer on the head when she surprised him upon arriving at the home.
The accused has never admitted to taking money from the home, according to the indictment.