Lugo, Feb 27 (EFE) to his daughter, little Desirée Leal, 7 years old, in May 2019, in the Lugo town of Muimenta (Cospeito).
The oral hearing will begin after the selection of the jury court, which will have to issue a verdict at the end of a trial that will last for six days – throughout this week and on Monday of the next, on February 27, 28 and March 1, 2, 3 and 6-.
The jury of the first trial, held in February 2022, found Ana Sandamil guilty of the murder of her daughter and the Galician court considered that, despite her mental disorder, the defendant had the capacity to understand what she was doing and the scope of her actions. his actions when he suffocated his daughter.
By virtue of that verdict, the Provincial Court of Lugo sentenced her to reviewable permanent imprisonment, but her defense filed an appeal before the TSXG, which ordered a repeat of the oral hearing, appreciating a lack of motivation in the verdict.
According to the first sentence, Sandamil drugged the little girl with an antidepressant and later suffocated her with her bare hands, putting pressure on her neck and also obstructing her airways, mouth and nose.
The lawyer who exercises the public prosecution, Francisco Lago, who acts on behalf of the Friends of Galicia Foundation, told EFE that, from his point of view, “as the evidence was carried out” in the first trial, the “conclusion ” which was reached is that “the mother did not have any significant affectation” at the time of the facts that would allow her to benefit from a lesser sentence.