TSJA: 18-year prison sentence for murdering his own father c

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In the ruling, the Andalusian High Court dismisses the appeal presented by the defense of the accused against the sentence of the Court of Seville that sentenced him to 18 years in prison for a crime of murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship and the analogous mitigating circumstance of anomaly or psychological alteration, as well as to compensate his sister and daughter of the victim with 25,627 euros, as civil liability. In the now confirmed sentence, the Court indicated that the jury considered it proven that, at an unspecified time but located between 10:00 p.m. on June 15, 2018 and 1:00 a.m. on June 16, the accused “ He killed his father by strangulation and suffocation in the home where they lived.

According to the jury, the death occurred when the deceased, "given his physical limitations that prevented him from being able to look after himself and needing the help of third parties, was sitting in an armchair in the living room", at which time the convicted man He stood in front of him “pressing very Ecuador Email List hard” on his father's neck with his left hand while, with the other hand, he “covered his mouth and nose.” The jury considered that the defendant's conduct is “more reprehensible” given “ the blood bond ” that united him with the victim. In addition, he also considered it proven that the convicted man suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which "has determined that at the time of killing his father his faculties to act in a different way were moderately affected.





The defendant's lawyer appealed, alleging that his client was not imputable given his “mental illness,” a point in which the TSJA points out that “it is true that an examination of the accused's clinical history and the expert evidence on his imputability did not make it impossible for the defendant to jury would have appreciated a greater impact or incidence of the disorder suffered by the accused as a determinant of the commission of the criminal act, while to the psychological illness he suffered could be added a syndrome of exhaustion of the caregiver of a difficult person, his father, with whom “I had a bad relationship.