The businessman and former regional deputy José Miguel Suárez Gil has accepted a sentence of one year in prison for two crimes of threats and coercion against his wife, the lawyer Josefina Navarrete, whom he pointed a gun at earlier this year. Suárez Gil, who was initially sent to provisional prison, accused of an alleged crime of gender violence, was released shortly after with charges.
On Tuesday morning, the businessman appeared before the judge of the Court of Violence against Women number 2 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, María Auxiliadora Díaz Velázquez, and has accepted the charges for threats and coercion.
For the first crime, he has been sentenced to 8 months of deprivation of liberty, 2 years of deprivation of the right to possess and carry weapons, and 2 years of prohibition from approaching the complainant, as well as communicating by any means for a period of 2 years.
Likewise, he has been sentenced for the crime of coercion to a penalty of 4 months of deprivation of liberty, 12 months to the penalty of deprivation of the right to possess and carry weapons, and the penalty of 12 months of prohibition from approaching and communicating with the complainant.
With this sentence, which also includes maintaining the telematic device that was imposed on him at the time, Suárez Gil would avoid imprisonment, since the sum of the two penalties does not reach two years in prison.
