The Ministry of Equality has confirmed a new murder due to gender violence in the province of Seville. This is a 22-year-old girl (Erica Vanessa Reyes) allegedly murdered by her spouse on July 31 in the town of Utrera. The victim had no minor daughters or sons. There were also no previous complaints of gender violence.
With the confirmation of this case, the number of women murdered by gender violence this black month of July rises to 8, and 32 so far this year. Since 2003, 1,216 people have been murdered.
The young woman was found dead by her sister at her home. She had received several blows to the head with a blunt hammer-type object, according to sources from the investigation.
The blows were spread over various areas of the victim's head, added the sources, who have specified that no other injuries have been found on the woman's body, in addition to the fact that the object used to murder the young woman has not been located by agents of the Civil Guard.
The agents searched for the husband after the discovery, although it took hours because he had hidden. He was arrested on the afternoon of July 31.
The detained man -N.A.C.T, 43 years old-, will go to court this Thursday in court number 3 of the Seville town. The case is under summary secrecy.
In his first statement before the Civil Guard, he has denied the facts, according to sources close to the case. Likewise, the lawyer for the victim's family, José Antonio Sires, criminal lawyer at Sires Abogados, has told Europa Press that he will raise a reviewable permanent prison sentence for "having knowingly and deliberately killed his partner, doing so in an surprising and without the deceased having the possibility of defending herself or fleeing". The accusation will focus on a crime of consummated murder with the aggravating circumstances of kinship and treachery.
The young woman was one of the thousands of Nicaraguans who left their country since 2018 to seek a better future in Spain, a situation that, in the province of Seville alone, means that there are some 18,000 migrants with white and blue passports.
