The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas has sentenced Raúl Díaz Chacón, Romina Celeste's husband, to just over 15 years in prison —four of them have served in pretrial detention— for murdering his wife, dismembering her, burning their remains and throw them off a cliff.
This is reflected in the ruling of the jury court, presided over by magistrate José Luis Goizueta, who in the sentence imposes Díaz, who confessed the facts a week ago —when the trial began—, twelve years, six months and one day for the crime of homicide; one year, nine months and one day for habitual abuse; two crimes of injury in the field of gender violence for 1 years, three months and two days; and three months in prison for the desecration of a corpse.
He is also sentenced to a fine of six euros a day for six months for simulating crimes, and once he is released from prison, he will have probation as a measure for 10 years.
Likewise, as civil liability, he must compensate Romina's mother and the children of the young Paraguayan with 260,000 euros.
The sentence is established after it has been considered proven that on August 8, 2018, he hit Romina "repeatedly" in a hotel, just as he would do on December 27 and 28 of that same year, when he caused her " major injuries", the young woman went to the Lanzarote hospital emergency room, although she was not treated in the end because she left.
Regarding the crime of homicide, the sentence includes the sentence, the convicted man acknowledged that he ended the life of the young woman "intentionally", as well as that he burned her body in a barbecue, dismembered it and dumped its remains along the island's coast .
In any case, it is pointed out that it is unknown what elements he used for the cut, so "the facts cannot be framed in the unpunished self-concealment and this is due to the fact of burning, dismembering, even extracting entrails, and throwing different pieces in different places, reveals a lack of respect of such an entity, which goes beyond the unlawfulness covered by the homicidal criminal type and the functional requirements of the anti-concealment".
Finally, it is exposed that the gender aggravation is included, since the convicted person acknowledged that he considered Romina an "inferior being with whom he could unleash his rage" for being a "young, foreign and without resources who practiced prostitution to support himself" .
