A court of Spain sentenced a man found guilty of letting his diabetic partner die and of recording his agony with a mobile phone in June 2019 at his home in Viladecans, a town in the province of Barcelona (northeast).
In the sentence, to which Efe had access, the Barcelona Court, in accordance with the verdict of the popular jury, attributes to the accused, Mariano Daniel Vasqueza crime of brutal murderthree of macho abuseone of habitual abuse and one once morest women’s privacya person “especially vulnerable due to his illness”.
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The sentence considers it proven that, between February and March 2019, the convicted man maintained a sentimental relationship, without living together, with the woman, and that over time he imposed himself on the victim, controlling and belittling her in public and in private, and also beat her on several occasions.
On the night of June 17, 2019, according to the ruling, The woman was very ill and called Mariano to come to her house to help her.
When the man arrived at the victim’s home, he found her physically very deteriorated, with respiratory difficulties and unable to do anything on her own.
However, he did not give him any help and he dedicated himself to contemplate how it was deterioratinghe lost consciousness and his life “extinguished”, until he suffered hyperglycemia that caused his death.
According to the Court, the woman’s death “would not have occurred” if the man, upon seeing her condition, had requested help from the emergency medical services.
In addition, it highlights the sentence that the defendant recorded the woman in her progressive deterioration with a mobile phone “to show the images to third parties” and try to pretend that he cared for her “and thus build an alibi” in case her death was investigated. In total he recorded 15 videos.
One of the main pieces of evidence used by the jury to support its conclusions were the videos recorded by the defendant himself in the victim’s home when she spent hours in a dying state and in constant deterioration of her physical and mental faculties.
