The TSJC ratifies the conviction against a young man who raped a girl on a landing in Arrecife

The Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands dismisses the appeal filed by his defense and confirms the eight-year prison sentence

March 5 2024 (16:04 WET)
Sexual Assault Trial (Photo: José Luis Carrasco)
Sexual Assault Trial (Photo: José Luis Carrasco)

The Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has dismissed the appeal filed by the defense of Pau Solá, convicted of raping a young woman on a landing in Arrecife in the summer of 2022.

The Chamber thus confirms the conviction for rape to eight years in prison that was dictated by the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas on October 13. To this ruling must be added the accessory of special disqualification of the right to passive suffrage during the term of the sentence. In addition to nine years of supervised release and the prohibition of approaching less than 500 meters from the victim, her home, her workplace and any other frequented by her.

Pau Solá has also been convicted of a minor crime of injury, with the payment of two months of fine with a daily fee of six euros, as well as compensation of 296 euros for physical damage and 6,000 euros for moral damages to the victim.

The events occurred in the summer of 2022, when the convicted man and the victim met in a bar on San Francisco Javier street in Arrecife. The sentence states that she was under the influence of alcohol and he, "with full knowledge that she lacked the necessary capacity to give any consent", grabbed her arm, pushed her. Despite the fact that she wanted to get rid of him", the convicted man was putting his hands under her pants, took her to a landing of a house in the capital of Lanzarote and penetrated her vaginally, after pulling down her pants and clothes. Then, he left her lying in the doorway.

The rape caused her various injuries to her chest, arms, eyebrow or buttock.

The ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands accepted as proven all the background of facts and facts of the sentence appealed by the defense of the convicted man. Meanwhile, it pointed out that the appeal filed by the lawyer did not have "procedural or substantive grounds".

In addition, it highlighted that the state of unconsciousness of the victim when she was found in the doorway was proven and photographed. Even several witnesses reported that the victim was staggering before the events.

Sexual Assault Trial (Photo: José Luis Carrasco)
Trial for sexual assault on a young woman in an Arrecife landing seen for sentencing
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