In 2005, during a fight in Costa Teguise, a young Moroccan man stabbed an English citizen with a knife in the course of a fight that broke out between several people. The jury considered the defendant the perpetrator of the events and now the Provincial Court has determined the sentence to be 10 years and six months for homicide. It has taken into account as a mitigating factor that he committed the crime "drunk" and that he has no criminal record to reduce the sentence by six months, with respect to what the Public Prosecutor's Office requested.
The jury also rejected the possibility of it being manslaughter as it determined that there was "intent to kill" as stated in the judgment in the reconstruction of the events "This is evidenced in both actions, such as leaving the scene of the fight to go and get the knife and inflicting up to five stab wounds", explains the judicial document.
According to the judgment, the events took place in the middle of a fight between English and Moroccan citizens in which they were attacking each other with glass bottles. "At one point, the accused left the fight and went to the house of some relatives, where he took a knife and then returned to the scene and with the intention of causing death stabbed N.P.", appears in the judgment as proven facts.
Similarly, the popular jury justifies the intentionality in the reaction of the accused, who apparently "returned to his uncle's house to change the clothes that were stained with the victim's blood and got rid of the knife" which has not been found for the investigation of this case.
M.D. admitted to having participated in the fight. Another reason, together with the intake of alcohol which, they deduce, "slightly reduced his faculties of understanding and wanting", which have been taken into account to reduce the final sentence. In addition, he will have to compensate the legal heirs of the victim with 90,000 euros.
