The former councilor in the Ponferrada City Council (León) Pedro Muñoz, 67 years old, entered prison this Sunday after being sentenced to 16 years and eleven months in prison for throwing his wife off the terrace of his house, causing injuries that They left her quadriplegic. In the afternoon, Muñoz entered the León prison of Villahierro, in the municipality of Mansilla de las Mulas, as penitentiary sources have confirmed to EFE, in compliance with the resolution of the León Court that responded to the request of the Prosecutor's Office and the accusations. individuals to force his entry into jail before the appeals he has presented are resolved.
Muñoz was sentenced for a crime of aggravated injuries, with the aggravating circumstances of kinship and gender discrimination to 12 years in prison, for three crimes of family abuse to 9 months in the case of the first, 9 months for the second and 11 months for the third, and for a crime of habitual family abuse to 2 and a half years.
Both the Prosecutor's Office and the private accusations demanded his entry into prison due to the risk of escape and taking into account the high penalty imposed as well as the seriousness of the facts for which he was convicted.
The private accusations denounced that Muñoz has already demonstrated that he tries to avoid civil liability as evidenced by the donation of his assets to his children. They also stressed the need to protect the victim, who, according to her defense, "lives cloistered and terrified."
In the sentence for which he was sentenced, the magistrates described in detail a “toxic relationship” marked by the “violent and intimidating behavior” of the former politician who physically and psychologically abused his partner from the beginning of their relationship, in which they were habitual. pushing, hitting, beating and humiliation.
The sentence considered it proven that on May 27, 2020, after an argument, the convicted man tried to end the life of the complainant by throwing her off the balcony.
A psychiatric nurse by profession, Pedro Muñoz carried out his political career first in the PSOE, then in the Unión del Pueblo Leonés and passed through the Popular Party, before forming the party of which he was president when the events for which he has been tried and occurred. condemned, Coalition for El Bierzo.
Muñoz was mayor of the town of Toreno for 12 years (between 2003 and 2015), first with the UPL and later with the Popular Party.
