Colombian accused of being a serial killer in Spain was found guilty of at least one homicide

2022-07-22 19:51:50 By : Ms. Penny Li

This Friday in Spain, the Jury has considered that the Colombian Jorge Ignacio Palma is guilty of the murder of the young Valencian Marta Calvo, whose body is still missing.In addition, it declares him the author of two other murders, as well as the crimes of attempted homicide, sexual abuse, against moral integrity and of having favored or facilitated the consumption of drugs by third parties, for a total of ten victims.After 23 trial sessions and five days of deliberations, the jury made up of seven women and two men, received at the beginning of the week the proposal of the object of the verdict, made up of 700 questions agreed by the different parties of the procedure, both favorable and unfavorable for the accused who had to respond and motivate.At the beginning of July of this year, the accused declared that he never intended to harm Calvo, but confessed again that he dismembered her body and threw it into bags from two containers from two towns in the province of Valencia. .For this reason, the jury considered that Jorge Palma murdered Marta Calvo by attacking her in a surprise manner and without her having any possibility of defending her after intoxicating her with cocaine in her house in the Valencian town of Manuel de Ella.In addition, the court judged Palma for not having really said where the body is, causing added pain to the family, for which he is responsible for the crime against moral integrity that the particular accusations of the victim's parents requested. .The three women he would have killed are: Marta Calvo, Arliene Ramos and Lady Marcela.According to Agencia EFE, the crimes would have been committed "in the course of sexual practices with cocaine and probably other substances."In addition to the three sexist crimes, the defendant is singled out with gender aggravation, for another seven crimes of sexual abuse of other young women, all of them prostitutes;as well as a series of crimes against public health (related to the facilitation of drugs).Regarding the above, the jury has declared proven in its decision that the accused chose his victims because they were vulnerable women, all of them prostitutes, and with a spirit of domination and machismo.He used them as an object to obtain pleasure through abusive dominance, putting their lives at risk.During the Valencia Hearing, the presiding magistrate of the trial will now be in charge of translating the jury's verdict into a sentence, she has been opposed to granting prison benefits or any type of pardon to the accused.Regarding the other two victims, the accused stated that when he had the appointment with Arliene Ramos, she was aware of her.With Lady Marcela he commented on the opposite, because she said "not locate her".For its part, the Prosecutor's Office of the European country asked the court for a sentence that adds up to 130 years in prison, counting the three crimes of homicide and 11 of sexual abuse.From January 1, 2022, the Spanish Ministry of Equality launched a femicide accounting system that also covers sexist murders committed outside the environment of the partner or ex-partner.According to the data collected by the entity, "the number of women killed by gender violence in Spain amounts to 23 in 2022 and 1,153 since 2003".