The Jury has declared Raúl Díaz Cachón guilty by unanimity of the gender violence crime for which he ended the life of his wife Romina Celeste during the New Year's Eve of 2018. In addition to the other five crimes collected by the Public Prosecutor's Office: habitual abuse, two crimes of injury in the field of gender violence, desecration of a corpse and a crime of simulation of crime.
The verdict was announced this Tuesday, after the celebration of the last session of the trial. The Prosecutor's Office is now asking for 15 years, nine months and four days for Raúl Díaz, a sentence to which the defense has also adhered.
The account approved by the Jury Court will be included as proven facts in the judgment. After that, it will be the magistrate of the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas, José Luis Goizueta, who will issue the ruling. For its part, Raúl Díaz's defense has stated that they will not appeal the conviction.
The Jury Court considered it proven that:
Raúl Díaz and Romina Celeste met in Madrid in late 2017. In early 2018 they came to live together in Lanzarote and finally married on August 10 of that same year.
Raúl, "with total disregard for the physical and emotional integrity" of his partner, assaulted her on several occasions and treated her with contempt, "causing her unbearable anguish and fear."
An example of this is the episode of gender violence, when the couple stayed at the Gran Hotel de Arrecife, where he beat her on several occasions.
Also, between December 27 and 29, 2018, Raúl Díaz abused her in the family home, causing her "significant injuries" and bruises in the thoracic area, neck, chest and arms. On the 29th, Romina went to the Insular Hospital of Lanzarote, around 6:33 a.m., but was not attended to after her husband showed up at the health center to take her away.
In the early morning of January 1, 2019, Raúl Díaz killed his wife Romina Celeste on the upper floor of the family home, located on Avenida de las Palmeras in Costa Teguise. "With the intention of causing death or assuming that possibility, he hit her in different parts of the body and killed her," read the facts proven by the Court.
Raúl Díaz killed Romina, considering her "an inferior being" with whom he could unleash his rage and this because she was a young, foreign woman without resources who worked as a prostitute to support herself financially. At the moment, the mechanism with which he took her life has not yet been determined.
The husband used a gas barbecue the day after the homicide, placed his wife's head and torso on the grill and in the following days dismembered those parts of her body. The barbecue was used as a dissection instrument, as well as another that could not be determined. From that moment on, he put the body in garbage bags and threw them into the sea.
On January 5, a lung of the victim was found in Costa Teguise. During that period, Raúl Díaz lied to friends and family who asked him about Romina Celeste. The accused ended up reporting her disappearance on January 8, 2019, despite knowing that his wife was dead.
Raúl has paid 260,000 euros of the 300,000 requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office in the form of compensation for civil liability for the mother and two children of the deceased.
