The Las Palmas Prosecutor's Office is asking for Stevens D.G., 28 years old, to serve 23 years in prison for considering him guilty of the death of Victoriano Carmelo Rivero Pulido, a man who lived in a tunnel under the road in the municipality of Tías. His trial, with a jury, begins this Monday at 9:30 a.m. in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The events date back to May 13, 2009. The Prosecutor's Office considers that the accused went to the place where the deceased lived and managed to immobilize him by tying his feet and hands with adhesive tape and a rope "depriving him of any possibility of defense." According to the Prosecutor's Office's account, the accused attacked Victoriano, hitting him hard with a sharp and blunt object, knocking the victim face down, hitting him repeatedly on the head and chest, causing numerous injuries and fractures, which ended up causing his death. The accused was arrested five months later and the possible motive for the crime is unknown.
The defendant's defense maintains that the defendant was never at that place on the day of the crime and asks that the footprints left by the alleged murderer's shoes at the crime scene be compared with the defendant's shoes. He also asks that another complete test be carried out of all the footprints found in the washing machine drum that was inside the tunnel used as a home by the victim and that it be reported if there were more footprints, in addition to those of the accused, in a bag that was found on the victim's body.
The defense lawyer has requested that another analysis be carried out of all the footprints found in that bag, specifying their location, the presence of blood or whether they belong to identified or unidentified people. He considers it "essential" that it be carried out "by neutral technicians who do not belong to the Civil Guard."
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