Noemí Martínez, the woman accused of killing her 6-year-old daughter Olivia in Gijón, was found hanged in her cell this Sunday. As judicial sources have confirmed to the EFE agency, the real woman would have committed suicide in the Asturias Penitentiary Center, where she was serving a sentence for the crime committed in October 2022.
Penitentiary Institutions have not confirmed the identity of the person found dead or the reasons for death, but they did confirm that this Sunday at 7:00 a.m., during one of the surveillance rounds, they found a lifeless person in his cell. Several Asturian media and national agencies have been responsible for confirming that the deceased was Noemí Martínez.
Olivia's crime had a certain media stir in Spain due to its cruelty. On October 30, the Police found a mother and daughter, in the Gijón neighborhood of El Llano, lying in the salary. The little girl was dead after taking drugs. According to the autopsy, she suffered an overdose of lorazepam, almost more than three times what was necessary to end the life of an adult.
One day before the crime, the judge had granted custody of the minor to the father, in dispute with the mother, who had remained in the Asturias Penitentiary Center since last November 2 when the head of the Court of Instruction number 1 decreed his admission. in provisional prison, communicated and without bail.
After receiving a call alerting them to the disappearance of both, the agents managed to enter the apartment, located on the fourth floor of number 71 Gaspar García Laviana Street, and found the girl already deceased. Mother and daughter, natives of Segovia, had moved to Gijón a few months earlier.
The woman indicated that she had taken pills and was evacuated, already detained, to the Jove hospital in Gijón for observation throughout the night, before being transferred the next day to the police station.
The minor's father, Eugenio García, who was alerted at his home in Segovia by police officers, moved to Gijón in shock, where he told journalists that he had just obtained custody after a process that had lasted for five years. .
The girl had been left in the mother's care during the weekend and the father was scheduled to travel with the minor to Segovia the following Monday.
