Logroño, (EFE) not to relive his death for a single day.”
Redondo, who represents the family and the Clara Campoamor association, has requested, like the prosecutor, a reviewable permanent prison sentence for a crime of murder and another 15 years in prison for the crime of sexual assault (rape) for Francisco Javier Almeida, as the alleged perpetrator of these crimes.
When these events occurred, on October 28, 2021, this 55-year-old man had been on probation for more than a year and a half for the murder and sexual assault of a real estate agent in Logroño in 1998, for which he was sentenced to 30 years in prison; and he had a previous sentence of 7 years in prison for another sexual assault in 1993.
This Thursday the election of the 11 people (9 holders and 2 substitutes) who will form part of the people’s court in this trial of the Provincial Court of Logroño, which will begin next Monday, March 20, and is expected to last for two weeks.
The election of the members of the jury will be held behind closed doors and the defendant, who will be transferred next Friday from a Madrid prison to that of Logroño, has not requested to be present at this act, judicial sources have informed EFE.
The family feels very supported
This lawyer has indicated that, after “a lot of work”, she faces “the final stretch” of the judicial process “with great force”, after having received “a lot of support” from around the world.
“The family feels very supported. The office faces the trial with great responsibility and with the desire for justice to be done ”, he stressed.
Redondo has stressed that “parents survive as they can” the death of their son, which for them “is a wound that will not close.”
He has found that “if it is already an unbearable pain to lose a child due to illness, in these circumstances it is much more traumatic.”
In addition, last January, the parents had to face the reduction from 10 to 8 years of the sentence imposed on Almeida for the sexual assault he committed in 1998, after the Provincial Court reviewed the sentence after the entry into force of the law of comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom, known as the law of only yes is yes.
“Parents do not understand this reduction in sentence after having committed the ruthless and inhuman murder” of the real estate agent, he added.