The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has rejected the appeals of the six convicted of the crime of Juan Carlos Tejera and has ratified the sentences imposed last November by the First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas.
That sentence, which has now been fully confirmed, sentenced 29 years in prison to the five material authors of the murder and 12 years in prison to the woman who acted as an accomplice, after the guilty verdict issued by a popular jury.
Specifically, it imposed 24 years in prison to 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 established that none of the six may access the third prison grade "until they effectively serve half of the prison sentences indicated"; and imposed on them the payment of compensation of 100,000 euros to the victim's partner and 18,000 euros to each of the brothers, which must be faced jointly among all the convicts.
Frustrated kidnapping
As 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 their vehicle to have it 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 moved him to a cave located in the Montaña Mina de Arrecife dump, 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 could obtain 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.
