The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas has already issued a sentence in the case of the murder of Juan Carlos Tejera, imposing 29 years in prison on the five material authors of the murder and 12 years in prison on the woman who acted as an accomplice.
The guilty verdict was already issued by the popular jury and based on that, the Court has now drafted the sentence, also establishing the penalties that correspond to each of the accused.
Specifically, it imposes 24 years in prison on José Carlos C.H., Néstor David P.P., Angelo D.D., Juan Antonio D.R. and Antonio Enrique G.G for the crimes of illegal detention and murder and another 5 years for belonging to a criminal organization. In the case of Tania R.R, sentenced to 12 years, she is considered an accomplice to the first two crimes.
The sentence also establishes that none of the six may access the third prison grade "until they effectively serve half of the prison sentences indicated".
In addition, it also imposes the payment of compensation of 100,000 euros to the victim's partner and 18,000 euros to each of the siblings, which must be faced jointly among all those convicted.
Victim monitoring and frustrated kidnapping
According to what the jury considered proven, the crime began to be prepared in February 2015, when some of the accused traveled to Lanzarote to obtain information from the victim, to whom they installed a GPS tracking device in his vehicle to have him located at all times.
Finally, on the night of March 12, 2015, they intercepted him in the garage of his house, tied his hands and feet, gave him several blows all over his body and put him in the back seat of his vehicle, in which they transferred him to a cave located in the Montaña Mina de Arrecife landfill, which they had conditioned and in which his lifeless body was found.
During the trial, the investigators pointed out that the initial intention was to carry out a kidnapping, because they intended to steal from Juan Carlos Tejera the money they believed he was hiding from profits he may have obtained from drug trafficking, a crime for which the deceased had served a sentence.
However, due to the violent aggression he suffered in the garage, the victim suffered severe traumatic brain injury, multiple fractures and intracranial vascular involvement, which, after a prolonged agonizing period, caused his death.
