Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- A drug addict accused of stabbing her neighbor with 62 stab wounds and robbing her on the night of November 2, 2021, in the La Paterna neighborhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has admitted this Monday before the Provincial Court that killed her, although he assures that he only remembers the pool of blood that was on the floor and that he had a knife in his hand.
In her statement before the jury on the first day of the trial, the defendant, Yaiza RF, 43, has asked for forgiveness and has stated that she feels very sorry: “I feel very bad, I am not going to forgive myself in life. She loved me a lot and I loved her, she was like my mother”.
The victim, María Rosa CS, 69, helped both her and her two minor children, whom she took care of despite her drug addiction.
The defendant faces a sentence of 23 years in prison for the crime of murder with cruelty and four and a half years in prison for the robbery with violence in an inhabited house, for some acts that the prosecutor Cristina Coterón considers that the defendant committed, Although in his actions he acknowledges his addiction to drugs since adolescence as mitigating, since he had “slightly diminished his faculties”, since his intention was to get money to get high, he told the court.
Due to the wounds that the deceased had, according to the prosecutor, the defendant acted in a “wild” and “raging” manner, since there are many stab wounds that he inflicted, the majority on the face and neck, and he used two knives , one that he was already wearing when he entered the house and another that he took from the neighbor’s kitchen.
The defense lawyer, María Teresa Guerra, will try to demonstrate in the trial that the defendant “is not a typical psychopath”, but a sick person and that when she committed the events she acted under the influence of drugs, since the purpose was Obtaining money to get high is proven, so he asks that the complete or incomplete exemption be applied to him, he has pointed out.
The defendant in her statement, between tears, said that that night she already had her pajamas on and was going to go to bed and that she does not know how she got to her neighbor’s house, who lived one floor below.
“I was very high and I don’t remember anything specifically, only that I had my 10-euro piece of paper, my bowling alley and a joint; That night I had everything”, Yaiza RF pointed out, who told the jury that they knocked on the door of her house and that her next image is already in her neighbor’s living room: “I saw myself on the floor with her and with a knife in hand.”
He has also recounted that he asked a friend for help through the window (“David goes up because I killed Rosa”) and that he tried to open the door of the house to get out but could not and that a neighbor who shortly after telephoned the The deceased lied to him out of fear and told him that she was his niece and that “Rosa was in the shower.”
“Everything is very contradictory to me,” said the defendant, who stated that “it was very bad, he had killed a woman,” when he assured that he is incapable of harming “a fly.”
According to what he has narrated, after a neighbor opened the door of the house, he left with a garbage bag containing objects belonging to the neighbor’s husband, who had died about five weeks ago, and with money, about 28 euros. , as he has said that he also does not remember having taken jewelry, a mobile phone and a video camera.
He has stated that he only remembers that, later, he went to take drugs at the house of his friend David, who lives next door, that that night he slept on the stairs of that building and that the next day he turned himself in to the Police.
To questions from the jury, he explained that he does not know the reason why he went down to his neighbor’s house that day, that he had hardly slept for a week and was consuming crack, heroin, hashish and all kinds of pills, as well as that, despite her addiction, she could fulfill her duty as a mother.
As she has recounted, she took her children to school every day and took care of them, although she told them that she was sick and hid her drug problem from them.
The deceased had only one child for whom the prosecutor claims compensation of 120,000 euros.
The trial will continue this Tuesday with the testimony of witnesses. EFE