The Provincial Court of Madrid has sentenced Paul N. to twenty years in prison as the author of the death in July 2020 of his partner Madalina N. in Torrejón de Ardoz.
This is stated in a sentence, to which Europa Press had access, in which he is punished as the author of a crime of murder, with the concurrence of the circumstances modifying the aggravating criminal responsibility of kinship, and of committing the crime for reasons of genre.
As civil liability, he must compensate Madalina's daughter in the amount of 200,000 euros, the parents in the amount of 100,000 euros each, and Madalina's brother in the amount of 5,000 euros.
The conviction comes after a popular jury unanimously declared the accused guilty of murder, with the aggravating factor of kinship. The prosecutor, the lawyer for the Community of Madrid and the private prosecution requested 25 years in prison.
Madalina, of Romanian origin, died as a result of the severe trauma that the accused caused her with a blunt object in the early hours of July 13, 2020. The victim was admitted to the ICU, but was disconnected 48 hours later as she was incompatible with the life the skull fracture he presented.
In his turn to have the last word, Paul reiterated his innocence and said that "he came to Spain to save and not to commit crimes." "Everything that happened was after getting out of the car. I tried to revive her and called the emergency services," he alleged. A version that the jury did not believe.
In her final argument, the prosecutor modified her provisional conclusions by classifying the facts as a crime of murder and not homicide, which is why she raised the request for conviction in accordance with this criminal classification.
He did so in view of the contradictions that the accused incurred since the investigation of the case began, as well as the testimony of the forensic experts who determined that the victim had no possibility of defending himself against the attack he received.
On the day of the events, the alleged murderer told the emergency services that Madalina had choked on a fish bone the day before. However, the paramedics found a wire in the woman's throat, which prevented her from being intubated in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Likewise, the prosecutor recalled that he told one of the police officers that he had hit the car door and that he told his lawyer that perhaps he had fallen out of the moving car to justify the blows that the woman had on her face. . At another time, he assured that the day before what happened she had slept poorly and that was why she had those bruises on her face.
At the trial he changed his version and stated that his partner had suffered a robbery on a bridge when she returned alone from having a drink in a bar with him. Apparently, she found him silent when she returned to the car and she wanted to get out and go back alone. When Paul went to look for her, he found her unconscious and bloody.
The prosecutor and the accusations mentioned in their reports the testimony of the police officers who reported that that same day the doctors at the Torrejón Ardoz Hospital alerted the National Police of the severe skull fracture that Madalina presented, incompatible with the accused's version that she had He had choked on a thorn.
"I saw her in the hospital and her head was completely deformed," the instructor of the police report stressed to the court during his appearance. 48 hours after the attack, the ICU doctors disconnected Madalina and she died as a result of the aforementioned severe skull fracture.
