Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE) in a penitentiary psychiatric center for a maximum period of 25 years.
The victim was stabbed 53 times on July 1, 2020 at his home in the municipality of Granadilla, in Tenerife, and after the jury’s guilty verdict, the Provincial Court has sentenced his son as the perpetrator of a murder with treachery.
The conviction also has the aggravating circumstance of kinship and the mitigation of incomplete defense due to mental anomaly and damage repair.
The convicted person has suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since he was 18 years old and has a recognized disability of 67%.
The ruling also states that, once he completes his prison sentence or psychiatric confinement, he will be on probation for ten years.
The jury that tried the case declared it proven that on July 1, 2020, this British citizen repeatedly stabbed his parents in the arms, neck, chest and back, causing their death.
Some stab wounds were inflicted when the victim was lying on the ground, face down, in any case unconscious and most likely lifeless and, according to the verdict, the now convicted man carried out the attack using a knife with a blade 15 centimeters long by 4 centimeters wide, initiating the aggression in a surprising way, without the victim having the possibility of defense.
The defendant, born in 1984, had a worsening of his paranoid schizophrenia when the murder took place, and the disease caused him a noticeable decrease in his ability to understand the significance of his behavior or to act according to this understanding or control his impulses, it is indicated in the sentence, in which it is added that his faculties were not annulled.
It is also noted in the sentence that, before the trial, as reparation for having caused the death of his father, he disposed of his assets, in the amount of 86,954.42 euros, in favor of his two brothers, who consider the compensation derived satisfied. of these facts. EFE