Lugo, Feb 27 (EFE).- The Provincial Court of Lugo has hosted this Monday the trial of Ana Sandamil, accused of murdering her seven-year-old daughter, Desirée Leal, in Muimenta in 2019, after the Court Superior de Xustiza de Galicia ordered to repeat the oral hearing that led to a guilty verdict and the subsequent sentence to reviewable permanent prison.
After the choice of the jury and the previous questions of the parties, the first to give a statement was the defendant herself, who has said that the girl was found -that May 3- on the ground when she went to see her in the morning, after after breakfast, and thought that “he had fallen out of bed.”
Sandamil has remarked that the girl was lying on the floor, on the right side of the bed, and she thought she had fallen. She has also explained that she took her pulse and, seeing that she did not have hers, tried to revive her, for which she squeezed her chest, opened her mouth and tried to blow air into her. She then went to tell her mother that “something” had happened to her daughter.
She has also confessed that she wanted to commit suicide and that she took a whole tablet of Trazodone, a medicine she took to “sleep”, but her mother “forced her to vomit”.
As for the remains of that medication found in the girl’s body, and which the prosecution attributes to an attempt by the mother to make the little girl sleepy to carry out the crime, he has denied that she had given him any sedative.
Regarding the relationship with the father of her daughter, from whom she separated when the minor was three years old, she has accused him of “psychological” abuse.
For his part, José Manel Manuel Leal, Desirée’s father, has accused Ana Sandamil and her entourage of lying in the trial to avoid a new reviewable permanent prison sentence.
“In this (trial), I am one hundred percent sure that they will do it much more, because they come more prepared to try to get this person, this monster, free from the permanent reviewable prison,” he insisted, but maintains the “hope” that “the result is the same” and the defendant is sentenced again to “permanent reviewable prison”, because all “the evidence, all, indicates it”, he told journalists.
However, the defense lawyer, Luis Rifón, has affirmed that Ana Sandamil “did not deliberately commit the death of her daughter”, because at the time of the events she suffered from “a serious personality disorder”.
The lawyer for the private prosecution, Manuel Ferreiro, has indicated that “if the forensics testify in the same sense”, the result must “be the same”, so that Ana Sandamil would be sentenced to permanent reviewable prison for the murder of her daughter. The lawyer has recalled that in the previous oral hearing the forensic experts were clear in their conclusions.
The lawyer who exercises the public prosecution on behalf of the Friends of Galicia Foundation, Francisco Lago, has expressed himself in the same vein. From his point of view, everything has been “clearly and thoroughly proven.
