The trial will begin on June 3 in Lanzarote and will be held with a jury

The Prosecutor's Office asks for 18 years in prison for a man accused of murdering his partner in Puerto del Carmen

The trial for the murder of a woman in Puerto del Carmen in October 2011 will go to trial next week, with the victim's partner in the dock. The Prosecutor's Office accuses of a crime of murder to ...

May 29 2013 (19:23 WEST)
The Prosecutor's Office requests 18 years in prison for a man accused of murdering his partner in Puerto del Carmen
The Prosecutor's Office requests 18 years in prison for a man accused of murdering his partner in Puerto del Carmen

The trial for the murder of a woman in Puerto del Carmen in October 2011 will go to trial next week, with the victim's partner in the dock. The Prosecutor's Office accuses Mor Ndao, of Senegalese origin, of murder and asks for 18 years in prison.

The sixth section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will travel to Lanzarote for this trial, which will take place over five days, from June 3 to 7, and whose verdict will be in the hands of a popular jury.

The crime was committed in the early morning of October 12, 2011. A few hours later, the accused himself voluntarily appeared at the Civil Guard barracks in Puerto del Carmen, to surrender and confess that he had murdered his partner.

The deceased, 36 years old and of Italian nationality, had a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter who was in the house when the events occurred. After the event, Social Services had to temporarily take care of the minor, until her relatives arrived from Italy.

From confession to silence

Although Mor Ndao confessed to the Civil Guard, he later refused to testify when he was brought to justice. At that time, the judge of the Court of Instruction Number 1 and Violence Against Women of Arrecife ordered his entry into provisional prison, pending the trial that is now going to be held.

At the time, the Senegalese community of Lanzarote wanted to publicly condemn this crime allegedly committed by a compatriot. To this end, two associations on the island sent a joint statement showing "their absolute rejection" of these events and transmitting their "pain and sorrow to the victim's family and, in particular, to the girl".

"Proud to live in this beautiful land, Lanzarote"

Shortly after the event, the sister of the deceased sent a public letter to the media, to thank them for the treatment received on the island during those hard times. "My sister, Mara Seighelli, always felt proud to live in this beautiful land, Lanzarote, where with all our pain since last Friday, November 4, her soul lies and rests, in the municipality of Tías", she began by saying in that letter.

Before returning to Italy, she explained in that letter that they had said goodbye to her sister "in the most absolute privacy" and expressed her gratitude "to all the people, citizens and administrations who have not only accompanied us in our pain, with the acts of repudiation of the violence that ended her life and the minutes of silence in her memory, but have helped us in every possible way to expedite the procedures and guardianship of my niece".

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