When the door opened, the man took three steps back and put two crucifix-shaped sticks between him and the police officers. Gustavo O., then 34 years old, was completely naked and covered in blood. Behind him, the agents saw how the body inert body of another man, half lying on a kind of breath with a screwdriver stuck in. While some patrol officers reduced the individual from the crucifix, others confirmed that the victim had died. Gustavo has been attending with his head down since this week judgment in which he faces 14 years in prison for ending his partner’s life on April 3, 2023. The key does not lie in knowing who committed the crime, but in what circumstances and whether these can be a reason for reducing the sentence or the disclaimer.
Early that spring day, several residents of a block in Puente de Vallecas alerted the police about an argument on a public street. When the first citizen security police arrived, they observed that the problem was not on the street, but inside a home. It was a resident who pointed out to the agents the floor where the screams were coming from. “When we got to the door, he told us through it that we were not police officers, that we were the devil. After a while he opened it with the crucifix,” one of the police officers who first arrived at the crime scene said at the oral hearing this Tuesday.
“He said disconnected phrases,” “He asked the Lord to help him,” “What he was saying was not understood,” stated the police officers who first arrived at the scene. “This is the harshest image that we are going to show,” the prosecutor warned the popular jury so that they would be warned. The man who was lying in the living room naked and wearing black socks was Pedro E. who had been in a relationship with the detainee for around four years and who had his boyfriend’s name tattooed on his chest. Not only did he have one screwdriver stuck in him, but three, and the blade of a knife was also found embedded in his back. In the room there was also salt scattered on the table, a couple of golden plates on the floor, paintings taken down, cushions and weights on the floor and some esoteric books and religious images.
The trail of blood continued along the hallway and reached the bedroom, so one of the investigators from Homicide Group V has stated that the main hypothesis is that the attack began in the room, continued down the hallway and ended. in the hall.
What triggered such an outburst of violence and how drugs were included in this crime is what we are trying to discern in this process. judicial. The public ministry writes in its indictment that the aggressor “presented an unrelated psychotic disorder and probable toxic-induced psychosis, which determined that his cognitive and volitional faculties were very significantly impaired.” The prosecutor accuses him of murder due to the unnecessary pain to which he subjected the victim and also with the aggravating factor of kinship due to the relationship they had. His defense lawyer requests that a complete defense be applied for mental disturbance due to drug consumption and that he be subjected to pharmacological and outpatient treatment.
The hours after Gustavo’s arrest were just as irrational as the arrest. He refused to testify, he urinated on the document that included his rights, he did not stop pacing in his cell. “We took him to a health center and he was examined. The result was an assessment that he was in good condition beyond a history of habitual drug use,” explained the police investigator of the case. He was later admitted for a few days to the psychiatric wing of the Infanta Sofía hospital.
Before killing his partner, the attacker recorded a video and uploaded it to Facebook. It lasted just 20 seconds, in which he already appeared with the crucifix and a religious image and he simply smiled at the camera and asked for forgiveness. He was also walking around the house, which at that time had not yet witnessed any crime.