The First Section of the Provincial Court has sentenced the defendant to three years, nine months and one day in prison for attempting to kill her partner in January 2018. The young woman has admitted the facts during the trial held this Monday and has reached an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office, which initially requested a sentence of 14 and a half years in prison.
Specifically, the Public Prosecutor's Office initially requested five years in prison for the defendant for a crime of injury and nine years and six months in prison for a crime of attempted homicide, with the aggravating circumstance of kinship in both cases. However, the defendant has finally only been convicted of the second of the crimes, for which she has also seen the sentence considerably reduced. However, in addition to the prison sentence, she has been banned from approaching the victim within 500 meters for six years and from paying court costs.
By admitting the facts, what is stated in the indictment is considered proven, which is that in the early hours of January 31, 2018, when the defendant was in the parking lot of the Deiland Shopping Center in Playa Honda in the company of her partner, she proceeded "to stab him in the right thigh" in the course of an argument.
Later, at approximately 4:15 a.m. on the same night, while the defendant and her partner were on the street, in front of the entrance to his home, the victim stated "his intention to break off the relationship with her." Faced with this, the defendant proceeded "to stab him in the neck with the same knife," causing "a penetrating wound of two centimeters," which "by affecting the external jugular vein, came to pose a life-threatening risk."
Despite this, it was the victim who "called the emergency services, who arrived at the scene immediately, proceeding to stop the bleeding he was suffering." The injuries he suffered required "specialized medical or surgical treatment" and "took 12 days to heal, of which seven were preventing him from his usual occupations and one was for hospitalization." In addition, the victim suffered "an aesthetic injury," although he waived "any civil and criminal actions that may correspond to him as a result of these events."
