The relatives of the mother of the child murdered by his father in Sueca in April 2022 told this Wednesday a story of contempt and psychological abuse that the aggressor inflicted on his then partner. The relatives have narrated before the jury the "ordeal" to which the woman was subjected for many years: "He belittled her, called her fat, a bitch and tried to rape her one day with a knife to her neck," they have described.
The two cousins of the minor's mother have testified as witnesses in the trial being held in the Valencia Court before a jury against the man who has confessed that he stabbed his son to death while allowing him to pick up the mobile phone so that he could read it. his mother would listen. He faces permanent reviewable prison, as the accusations demand.
Yesterday it was the turn of the witnesses and the first two were the woman's cousins, before whose testimonies the accused remained impassive. One of her witnesses, during her testimony, stated visibly affected that although she did not see firsthand the insults or mistreatment of her cousin, she did know that he despised her and that she had lost self-confidence. On one occasion, after his sister's wedding, he did say that he approached his cousin when she was with other people "laughing and having fun" and "he forced her to get out. I saw how he took her outside, as if it bothered him that she was there." having fun," he explained.
It was already when the crime occurred that her cousin confessed that on two occasions the accused had grabbed her by the neck and that "many other times" he tried to force her to have sexual relations. She told him that on one occasion he closed the door, threw her against the bed and held a knife to her neck.
The witness, who stated that she "never" saw the accused drunk, has indicated that his relationship with his son was "good." "Jordi - the youngest - loved his father very much. It was a normal relationship between father and son. He loved his father madly," she noted.
His testimony was similar to that given by his sister and also the woman's cousin, who lived in Sueca. "He has never had a nice word towards her. He told me that she was very hot in front of her and to the woman that she was fat," he explained to affirm that his cousin justified him and always said that it was a "joke."
She also alluded to her wedding day and pointed out that he shook her: "We were laughing and having a good time. He was even envious of the air my cousin breathed," she said. She reproached him for her attitude and from that moment on she forbade her son from going to her house. "This man has always been like this, he was envious of everything and he couldn't see her smile."
On one occasion the cousin told him that she couldn't take it anymore but that she couldn't separate because the boy went to school there and "he would be the way he would be." She was wearing a scarf around her neck and at the same time she confessed that it was because he had grabbed her neck. "He called us whores, wretches and kennels," she added. "We lost my cousin because he absorbed her in such a way that she was his only one," she said.
For her part, a friend and co-worker of the child's mother also stated that the accused also began working with them in 2017 and "everything happened, he didn't relate to anyone." "She always had the phone ringing and it was him. He also held her arm and once called her 'bitch,'" she described. "She said that she did not want to separate because the child loved her father very much," argued this witness, who also explained that when the woman decided to separate, he replied that she would not live with anyone other than him.
Another witness, a childhood friend of the mother, stated that the accused treated the woman "like a zero to the left." "She has always been her maid for him. She put him down a lot. She said that her wife was overweight and that was why no one looked at her," she narrated.
"I was a 'doghouse' for him and he didn't want his wife to get together with me. He forbade her from coming with us and she couldn't laugh with us. She was always at home cleaning and working," said the witness, who assured that he never saw the accused drunk and that the relationship he had with the child was "very good, he cared about him."
