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The new verdict of the popular jury responsible for resolving the degree of guilt of José Enrique Abuín Gey , aka the Gum , in the crime of Diana Quer has already been handed over to the parties, reports Efe, so it is expected to be read this Saturday . The High Court of Justice of Galicia has informed that it is a precaution for its review, in terms of legal issues, "obviously not of content", that is to say only if the parties see formal issues that do not conform to the law.

The parties involved in the judicial case for the crime of the young Diana Quer - the Prosecutor's Office, the private prosecution and the defense - have been summoned this Saturday, after on Friday Judge Ángel Pantín decided to return the verdict of the popular jury when assessing Understand that there are formal errors , issues that require a greater foundation and possible contradictions in the considerations transferred by the jurors.

Sources of the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG) have confirmed that, after deciding the return of the minutes to the jury, the judge must write a report with the deficiencies detected for correction. This new deliberation process has no deadline and can continue over the weekend. Judicial sources have indicated to the press that they are polishing formal issues.

The jury must respond in this case to an object of verdict composed of a total of 27 questions focused on assessing whether they gave credibility to the version of José Enrique Abuín Gey, El Chicle , that killed Diana unintentionally, in analyzing in detail the "thousands of data" that were exposed in the trial ended on Tuesday to determine their guilt over the three crimes in liza and to determine if a "gender aggravating" or a mitigating confession can be applied in this case

The jury was locked to deliberate at around 3.30 pm on Tuesday after 11 trial sessions and was isolated to reach an agreement. Finally, after two and a half days of deliberations, at the end of this Thursday they concluded that they already had a verdict and so it was communicated to the Provincial Court of Coruña, so that the parties were summoned this Friday.

Once the magistrate has decided to return the verdict to the jury, the five men and four women who make it up must re-base their answers to the object of the verdict. Once they have the new wording, they must communicate it again and the procedure will be repeated.

Juan Carlos Quer: "Why is it so difficult to do justice for the victims"

The businessman Juan Carlos Quer, Diana's father, has wondered this Saturday "why it is so difficult in this country to do justice for the victims". Upon his arrival at the Compostela courts to attend the reading of the verdict that will resolve the degree of guilt of José Enrique Abuín Gey, he has told the press that after a trial that has lasted "two weeks" in which he has not stopped to talk about the rights of "the detainee" he also asks "if my daughter has any right".

"Diana has been in a well for 500 days saying 'it's not no' and it's still hard for her to do justice," Juan Carlos Quer lamented, waiting for the judge to evaluate the verdict issued by the popular jury.

The businessman, accompanied by his brother, has admitted that it is "hard" that even with the message "protection" sent by Diana Quer "so that other girls end up in a trunk, you still have to hear that revenge moves you" .

"Diana also had the right, to the most important of the Constitution. The right to life and my daughter was taken away," he has settled.

Accusation against Chewing Gum

Chewing gum was tried for the crimes of illegal detention, sexual assault and murder with alevosía, reprimand and to prevent the discovery of another crime - sexual assault - for which the Prosecutor's Office and the private prosecutor requested his sentence to review a permanent prison reviewable. Meanwhile, the defense recognized a crime of reckless homicide or, alternatively, one of manslaughter, for which he requested two and a half years or five to seven years in jail.

Diana Quer was last seen at dawn on August 22, 2016 after being with her friends at the management parties of A Pobra do Caramiñal, her summer resort since childhood, where she was that summer with her mother and sister . When he returned home, he lost track of him and the last news he had of her was a WhatsApp conversation that he had with a friend from Madrid at 02:40, in which he said he was "getting used up" because "a gypsy was calling me "and said" brunette, come here ".

After not returning home, in the morning, her mother noticed her absence and reported her disappearance before the Civil Guard, leading to a 497-day search of the young woman, who was then 18 years old and currently would have turned 21. Silence prevailed for 497 days, until at dawn on December 31, 2017, El Gicle took the Civil Guard to the place where his body was hidden.

Processing Background

Last April, El Gicle was sentenced by the Provincial Court of Coruña 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 her detention at Christmas 2017 and later confession of where Diana's body had hidden.

The other background of the processing was also placed on the table. He is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year prior conviction for drug trafficking and has opened an investigation for the rape of his former 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.

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