The

Lleida

Court

has sentenced the former leader of Vox in Lleida

José Antonio Ortiz Cambray

to 14 years and 3 months in prison

for

sexually abusing

people with disabilities after considering it proven that he offered them money in exchange for different sexual acts, according to sources from the Lleida Prosecutor's Office.

The court condemns Ortiz Cambray to

eight years in prison

for a continuing crime of sexual abuse of people with disabilities;

two sentences of two and a half years in jail each for two crimes of corruption of people with disabilities, and another sentence of one year and three months in prison for a crime of pornography with the use of people with disabilities, the newspaper published this Tuesday

Segre

.

The ruling indicates that Ortiz Cambray must

compensate

one of the victims with

15,000 euros

and another with 5,000 euros for the damage caused.

At the trial, held on November 25, the former Vox leader denied having had physical contact with the two men with disabilities: "I swear to God and to the memory of my parents, I did not have those meetings."

Ortiz Cambray was arrested at the Lleida vehicle dealership where he worked in early March 2019, after the Alosa de Lleida Foundation, which is guarding two of the victims, discovered the WhatsApp messages of him and one of the disabled and reported it to the police station of the Mossos d'Esquadra.

PREVENTIVE PRISON

The former leader of Vox was in preventive detention until last October, when he was released from jail after paying a

6,000-euro bail

.

On the day of the trial, minutes before Ortiz Cambray entered the court, a group from the Lleida trans group displayed a banner at the door of the judicial building with

the message "José A. Ortiz, rapist and fascist

."

Days before he was arrested, Ortiz had filed a complaint with the Lleida Provincial Prosecutor's Office for an alleged hate crime for the appearance of hanged dolls with the acronyms of Cs, PP, PSC, Unidos Podemos and Vox, in which he appeared as "president of Vox Lleida".

After his arrest was made public,

the party suspended his membership and assured that he did not hold any position of responsibility

within the formation.

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