The Provincial Court of A Coruña has finally formed the jury court that will judge José Enrique Abuín Gey, known as the Chewing Gum , as of Tuesday, November 12, for the kidnapping, murder and sexual assault of Diana Quer. After a first failed attempt to set up the jury two weeks ago, this Monday it has been possible to appoint the nine incumbents and two alternates who will be responsible for judging this case.

On October 28, the process was suspended because to start the jury selection process it is necessary to have 20 people and only achieved 17. On this occasion, 12 new people had been cited, of which four were excluded to exempt themselves from training part of the jury alleging as reasons that one knew the victim's family, another because he had already been a juror in the past, a third for a medical reason and a fourth because of studies.

Finally, they had a group of 25 people among which to make the final selection -17 already set last week and eight this time- and after 12:30 in the morning on Monday it was possible to determine that from this Monday they will judge Chewing gum four women women and five men. They will be the incumbents and, as adults, the two substitutes, a man and a woman, have already been appointed.

The trial will finally begin on Tuesday, November 12 at 9:30 a.m. 'The Chewing Gum' will sit on the bench of the defendants of the Sixth Section of the Provincial Court of A Coruña and will be exposed to the interrogation of their own lawyer and the Prosecutor and the lawyer who exercises the private accusation on behalf of the parents of Diana Quer. Next, the parents of the victim, Juan Carlos Quer and Diana López-Pinel, will declare.

As of November 13, the rest of the 91 witnesses and experts will begin, who will help shed some light on this media case for two weeks, which could end Abuín Gey, sentenced to permanent reviewable prison. It is the penalty requested by the Prosecutor for the crimes of illegal detention, sexual assault and murder with abuse, reprimand and to prevent the discovery of another crime, and also that claimed by the private prosecution. In fact, Juan Carlos Quer has been leading the fight against the repeal of this penalty in the Spanish Criminal Code since January 2018.

Diana Quer disappeared at the dawn of August 22, 2016 from her summer resort, A Pobra do Caramiñal when she was 18 years old and her body did not appear until 497 days days, at dawn on December 31, 2017, when the Chewing Gum took to the Civil Guard to the place where the body had been hidden, at the bottom of a well, from a few hours after its disappearance.

In the two weeks of trial they will try to explain what happened on the night of her disappearance and death and, above all, determine if the Chewing gum raped Diana before killing her, since justifying that sexual assault would allow her sentence to be reviewed for permanent prison. Although he has always denied it, the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecution say yes. In addition to the forensic reports, the character of "sexual predator" that the investigators attribute to the accused and also his background will be put on the table.

In this regard, it should be remembered that in April he was sentenced by the Provincial Court to five years and one month in prison for the attempted abduction and rape of a young woman from the town of Boiro, just the facts that precipitated his Christmas detention and subsequent confession of where the body had been hidden. In addition, he has opened an investigation for the rape of his ex-sister-in-law, twin sister of his ex-wife, when he was a minor, a case filed since 2007 that was reopened following the discovery of Diana Quer's body.

The facts to judge

The prosecutor's account of the facts for this case begins at dawn on August 22, 2016, at the time that Abuín Hey left his home in the town of Rianxo, driving his Alfa Romeo car and reached A Pobra do Caramiñal, where he focused his attention on Diana, who, at 02:28 hours, had begun the journey back to her home, from the Valle Inclán Gardens, and headed alone and on foot to her holiday residence.

The Prosecutor's Office maintains that he sighted her during her journey, in which she had to cross a remote, depopulated and poorly lit park area and through which no one was circulating at that time, with abandoned ships. Taking advantage of these circumstances "knowingly", he followed her in his car, slowly and without losing sight of her, "stalking her until she reached the most appropriate place to later approach her and apprehend her in order to sexually assault her."

According to the Prosecutor's Office, he was "aware that no one could help her" by cutting off his car with the famous 'Morena, come here'. Acting with the purpose of depriving her of freedom of movement and communication and of attacking her sexual freedom, he approached her and violently pounced on her, reducing her by force, without her being able to do anything to prevent the attack, when she was alone and helpless.

The indictment adds that he snatched his cell phone so he could not ask for help and was thus totally unprotected, while dragging it to his vehicle and introducing it in the trunk, where he swung her hands and feet with flanges and gagged with adhesive tape, canceling any chance of escape. Having her totally at his mercy, he moved away from this place at high speed, when he crossed the bridge of the Ría de Arousa Highway, threw his cell phone into the sea and continued to the Asados ​​parish in Rianxo.

He traveled a distance of 17 kilometers until he reached a destination that he had previously decided to consummate his purpose of sexually attacking her, a ship abandoned for years near the home of his parents and had frequented regularly to steal furniture from their stores . According to the Prosecutor's Office, he chose it because he knew that he had disused beds and mattresses and that it was "the perfect place to consummate his act of raping her."

He parked the car inside, dragged it to the basement warehouse, a place without light, "sordid, gloomy, dark and dirty." She was "tied, subdued and terrified," undressed her, groped her and, according to the Prosecutor's Office, raped her while she resisted, reaching to place a bridle around her neck and squeeze her hard with the intention of threatening her life and to hide He had raped her.

He killed her by strangulation, took the body to a well of fresh water and 10 meters deep and threw inside her bag, her thong and her body, naked, with the bridle still attached to her neck. 20 days later, he returned and ballasted the body with two large blocks of adobe, weighing 18.5 kilos, joined together by an electric cable, until it sank. He covered the mouth of the well with a concrete casket so that the body was never discovered. He was only located because he himself guided the investigators to the crime after running out of the alibi that his ex-wife and ex-brothers-in-law had given him for more than a year and confessed to the crime.

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