• Trial of the 'Diana Quer case'. The former sister-in-law of 'The Chewing Gum' ratifies the trial of Diana Quer who raped her when she was younger

The second session of the trial against José Enrique Abuín Gey, El Chicle, for the illegal detention, sexual assault and murder of Diana Quer has allowed to bring to light an episode that until now had not transpired although it was part of the case summary: a Woman says that in the first of the year 2017, half a year after Diana's disappearance, the defendant approached her and tried to attack her while saying: "Come, we're going to have a good time."

The woman refused to look at the defendant claiming "I can't look at him, I get very nervous", although, in any case, he recognized her without any doubts as the man who approached her one evening at the beginning of 2017 She was waiting for her husband at the edge of a road in the Orensano town hall of Taboadela. "I don't forget," he said, adding that he has the same physical appearance.

In his statement as a witness, very nervous and sometimes with a broken voice, he recalled that he crossed the car in front of her, got out, approached him and said that "come, we're going to have a good time." He was "about" to hold her, but she is pleased that he didn't touch her because she ran and asked for help. Finally, when her husband arrived by car, he got in his own vehicle and ran away "through the mountains."

Everything went "very fast" and, although she felt very afraid, she did not want to report the facts and simply commented to a known civil guard to extreme vigilance in the area for what had happened to her and to focus on trying to "forget all". Yes he was encouraged to report months later because he recognized his attacker on television after the appearance of Diana Quer's body.

The impact of seeing him was such that he assures that, since then, he cannot watch television. "I was panicked when I saw his face," he recalled during his testimony in the courtroom. His was the last of the eight testimonies heard during the day on Wednesday in the courtroom of the courts of Santiago de Compostela.

A friend of 'ligues' who taught the Asados ​​well

The Civil Guard investigators established from the beginning that El Gicle gives the profile of "sexual predator" and that it had a very determined taste: young, thin, brunette women with long hair. This Wednesday, a childhood friend confirmed those inclinations of Abuín Gey. This is a man with whom he went out to link to nightclubs and, during the day, he went to the vicinity of the institutes to see young people and compliment them.

"Beautiful, good aunts, brunettes", were some of the compliments that told the girls, a profile that would fit with the "Morena, come here" which, according to Diana Quer's last message to a friend from Madrid, told the young woman from Pozuelo when he approached her on the day of her disappearance in A Pobra do Caramiñal.

In addition, both friends went together to hostels in different parts of Galicia such as Pontevedra, Vigo or Santiago and there they were always interested in girls of similar physical characteristics. To go to all these places, according to this friend, they lied to the wife of Abuín Gey telling them "we were going to the clams", apparently, alluding to the illegal shellfish clamming. It would be the second illegal activity that he uses as an excuse The Chewing Gum to go to commit his attacks, because the day he assaulted Diana Quer he told his wife that he was going to steal diesel.

This friend defines Chewing Gum as "very liar" and recounts that, during the months that Diana Quer was missing, they talked about the subject and said he was convinced that "they would not find her anymore" because she would have gone abroad. Along the same lines, the former brother-in-law of Abuín Gey said that he also had conversations about the disappearance in which he joked that the girl was sure to have "gone with a rich man."

With this man, who showed few skills when expressing himself, the defendant also went to the abandoned ship of Asados ​​(Rianxo, A Coruña) in which he acknowledged having hidden Diana Quer's body for 497 days. It was before all these events, in the winter of 2015 or 2016, when they came to steal furniture, but the highlight of this testimony is that the man says that he already showed him the well to which he threw the body.

The Chewing gum explained that he knew that there was that well although he did not know if he had water or not. However, this friend's testimony would reveal a lie, as the man related that they lifted the lid to see how much water he had. He added that, to lift that lid, it took a lot of strength and use a detachable lever that he always carried in the trunk. He also carried, as he claims, a bag of flanges.

The session was completed by the testimonies of two sisters who, on the night of December 23-24, 2017, just before Boiro's case, said they were approached by the defendant, who stood by his side in a car and insisted on taking them to a bar. Although they refused and he left, they saw him again soon after, passing several times in front of the bar and telling one of them "blonde, come here."

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