Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE) it happened that day but he assumes that he was the one who committed the murder.
“Supposedly it was me because I was alone, I don’t know if my parents were alive when I left,” said Gabriel Iván MD, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution request 40 years in prison and the payment of 300,000 euros to each of his two brothers.
In principle, in his defense brief, the defendant maintained his innocence but later changed his version and while his lawyer claimed that what happened was due to drug use, he says that the first memory he has is of being next to some containers but not You know what he was doing there.
The prosecutor’s office and the private prosecution maintain a different story, assuring that after consuming crack he went to the parents’ house where he lived and once again demanded money to buy drugs.
Given the mother’s refusal, he slit her throat and when the father came out of the bathroom upon hearing the screams, he stabbed him.
The family lawyer believes that he could not control the situation and that the death was not quick but very painful, and he highlights the corpulence and strength of the aggressor, far superior to that of his parents.
He “slit the throat of the mother until she was decapitated” while the father received two stab wounds in the chest and one in the side.
Then he changed his clothes, put them in a bag, stole the money and took the keys to his father’s car with which he went to Cabo Blanco to buy more drugs.
On the way, he threw the bag into some containers, he was with some friends to whom he confessed to the crime, and he spent that night with a prostitute.
Finally, he would turn himself in to the Civil Guard after they called him, considering him the main suspect. The accusations ask that the aggravating factors of kinship, treachery and cruelty be imposed.
The defense assured that the son “has been dead for three years”, that he was “a victim of himself and of the dependency” that he had since he was fifteen years old.
“He only moved because of drugs, he knows what happened but in the past”, for which he “strongly” asked the jury to take into account his chronic dependence on hard drugs and his failed attempts to leave that world in two occasions.
“He also died on the same day that the events occurred,” said his lawyer.
He alleges that he had been using crack for a week and therefore was unaware of what he did.
In the trial, the defendant has responded most of the time with monosyllables but has reported that part of his addictions was paid for by his parents, with whom he had confrontations from time to time if they did not give him money.
That day, he claims that he had consumed a gram of crack outside the house. She then entered with a knife and when her mother refused to give her more money, she doesn’t remember what happened until she appears next to the containers.
He barely remembered “something” related to the clothes, but he doesn’t know if he threw them away, and that he had his father’s car but he doesn’t know what happened before.
Then he went to buy drugs and met up with some friends, although once again he appeals to oblivion when asked if he was with a prostitute.
He assures that he found out what happened when last Thursday he read the news in a newspaper in the jail where he has been in preventive detention.
On the first day of the trial, the two brothers also testified, who practically agreed on their entire story.
They barely had a relationship with the defendant because of his drug problems; They say that he lived in his parents’ house and not in his own because they had threatened him, that he had convictions for mistreating his ex-wife.
The sister assured that on one occasion when she was outside her home, she entered and stole a watch and that she always asked for money.
“There were many arguments with my parents, he never hit them but my father had said that he was afraid that he would kill them at any moment.” From the beginning they suspected that he was the author of the crime.
Two days after the events occurred, unable to speak with their mother, they went to the house in the afternoon and found the two bodies on the ground surrounded by blood.
They also noticed that mobile phones and the landline were missing and a fanny pack in which the mother kept the money she earned every weekend selling at an agricultural market, where she used to carry around 500 euros.
“We were not surprised, we always thought something similar would happen,” said the daughter.
She has no recollection of what the defendant was like before he started using drugs because “you keep the bad and the good is lost” at the time he became addicted. “That Gabriel who was always with me and wore when he was going to fall in love disappeared.”
The brother’s statement was in the same vein and he agreed that they don’t care if he is sorry or not, from jail he sent two letters asking for forgiveness and a prisoner also called them on his behalf saying the same thing.
Both declared that his mother was his unconditional support at all times, protected him until the end and that he went from being a loving person before becoming a drug addict to showing a violent character. EFE