The trial for the attempted murder of a 16-month-old baby at Lanzarote airport, which was scheduled to be held by the Second Section of the Provincial Court next Wednesday, September 9, has finally been suspended, as confirmed by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands.
The oral hearing was to be held in Gran Canaria but, due to the measures against Covid, the accused and the parties were to intervene by videoconference from Arrecife. In addition, as meetings in the Canary Islands had been limited to 10 people, journalists and cameras had been prohibited from entering both the courtroom where the trial was to take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the one in Lanzarote, and could only be followed through the press room set up in the Palace of Justice of Gran Canaria.
However, due to the accumulation of difficulties, the Second Section of the Provincial Court has finally decided to postpone the trial, without a new date for its celebration having been set at the moment.
It should be remembered that the accused and father of the victim faces a prison sentence of 20 years and three months. In addition to a crime of attempted murder, he is accused of a crime of coercion, a continuing crime of threats, a crime of mistreatment in the family environment and a continuing crime of breach of sentence since, when the events occurred, he had a restraining order for a sentence that a month before had been imposed for a crime of injury in the family environment.
