The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Las Palmas has denied this Thursday that it is trying to delay the judicial procedure in the Romina case, the young woman who was, allegedly, murdered, dismembered and burned by her husband on New Year's Eve 2019 in her home in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote. The accused could leave the Tahíche penitentiary center on January 16, since four years have passed since the first order of provisional imprisonment was issued, which was extended in 2021. A situation that was denounced this week by the victim's own family, who was concerned about the risk of flight that exists
Sources from the Public Prosecutor's Office explained to La Provincia that the main problem for the continuation of the proceedings is the appeals filed by the defense, because until these movements are resolved, the jury cannot be summoned and a date set for the trial. This was also acknowledged by the lawyer for the private prosecution, Emilia Zaballos, who, however, also criticized the fact that she has been trying to hold a meeting with the prosecutor in charge of Gender Violence, Jesús Lomba, "for more than two months" without success. "There is no way to get to talk to him, or for him to return calls, or for him to speak out about it," she censured.
Zaballos explained that the family wanted to reach an agreement with the defendant's lawyer, Raúl D. C., to avoid the trial and prevent him from being released from prison when the four years of precautionary measures against him are up. Under the agreement, the man would be in prison for nine years, with mitigating circumstances of confession and undue delays in the proceedings. An option that the Prosecutor's Office completely rejects: "Reducing the sentence from twenty years in prison to nine with mitigating circumstances that do not appear in our brief of provisional conclusions is not possible. And if, once the trial has been held, the Public Prosecutor's Office understands that these delays and this confession do occur, then we will propose it in the conclusions that we raise to definitive, but not before."
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