The Public Prosecutor's Office has requested the confinement in a psychiatric center for 20 years of the accused of killing his mother in San Bartolomé in 2014, who will be judged by the First Section of the Provincial Court between September 17 and 20. The trial will be held in Gran Canaria and the Public Prosecutor's Office also requests that N. d.L. compensate his sister with 120,000 euros.
The events took place on the afternoon-night of February 14, 2014 at the mother's home where the defendant had stayed "with the intention of sleeping." At one point in the night, according to the Prosecutor's Office's indictment, "the accused went to his mother's bedroom" and "taking advantage of the fact that she was asleep, surprisingly and unexpectedly" and "without her expecting it", proceeded "to undress her and began to hit her in different areas" of the body.
The Public Prosecutor's Office maintains that the accused, "with the intention of ending his mother's life or knowing that he could cause her death, continued to inflict multiple blows with great force with his fist on her head, face and thoraco-abdominal region".
As a consequence of the "multiple and varied blows received given by the accused with full awareness of increasing the victim's suffering", his mother suffered "serious brain and lung injuries that caused a life-threatening situation for her organism" that "after a period of agony, caused her death between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. on February 15".
Considers that he suffered "a delirium" that conditioned his actions
However, the Prosecutor's Office considers that, at the time of the commission of the events, the accused was "under the influence of a state of great confusion, emotional agitation and a significant cognitive dysfunction caused by the existence of a delirium that conditioned his actions, causing a complete loss in the understanding of the facts, in their nature and the consequences thereof, with a total absence in his capacity for judgment".
Thus, the Public Prosecutor's Office considers that the complete exemption from criminal responsibility and the modifying circumstance of the aggravating criminal responsibility of kinship concur and, therefore, requests that the accused be freely acquitted, although it requests that "the measure of confinement for medical treatment in a center appropriate to the type of anomaly or psychic alteration he suffers, for a period of 20 years" be imposed on him.
