• Courts Judge an accused of murdering his partner after letting her die of a diabetic coma while filming his agony for 5 hours

"It was so tired and it started to fall, but I thought it would be fine."

With these words, Mariano V. has justified not acting in the face of the diabetic coma that her partner suffered in June 2019 and that ended with her death in her house in Viladecans.

The defendant faces a reviewable permanent prison sentence for a crime of murder in the trial held at the Barcelona Court since the Prosecutor's Office and the accusations consider that he let the victim die, whom he had allegedly previously mistreated, and recorded his agony for five hours.

In his statement before the jury, the defendant explained that the woman had already experienced similar episodes before and even "worse" than the day of her death and that she "never" thought about the fatal outcome.

He pointed out that the day of her death, the woman was "very high" on drugs and alcohol and that she was dragging herself on the ground without controlling her sphincters.

In addition, he explained that she did not call an ambulance because she did not want to be seen in that state.

He also stated that he was not a sentimental partner of the woman, despite the fact that he slept at her house "four or five times" a week, since their circumstantial relationship despite seeing each other repeatedly and "we only shared alcohol, sex and drugs" .

Thus, she admitted that the woman was ill since she abused alcohol and cocaine, so she did not control the type 1 diabetes that she suffered from.

For this reason, she assured that on other occasions she was the same and recovered after a few hours of sleep.

"She started to fall and I said 'well, she'll be fine', other times she felt bad and she woke up a little dizzy after spending two or three hours in bed."

In addition, he added that "at no time did I see that there was any danger" since his illness had "ups and downs", and for this reason he stressed that "I don't know if it was a drop in sugar or a high that he had from the mixture of everything that we were wearing."

The defendant, who according to the accusations has health knowledge due to his profession in dentistry, admitted that he went to the woman's house after she asked him for help: "I'm very sick, I don't know who to call, I don't want anyone to see me, help me, bring me medicine, bring me something, I'm drowning, I'm dizzy, sugar, I don't know what to tell you".

However, he added that, when she arrived, she "was perfectly able to walk, take insulin or go to the kitchen", but was "very high" by a combination of liquors, cocaine and probably sedatives.

In addition, she indicated that the victim "became very aggressive" and tried to hit him when she tried to get him to eat and that she prevented him from calling nurses or an ambulance because "she did not want them to see her like this" when she got worse and urinated on herself and Fainting.

"I never thought that would happen, I had seen her many times in that situation or worse," added the accused, who admitted that after a few hours Susana urinated on herself and fell to the ground.

For five hours, the accused was with the woman and even recorded her with her mobile.

In these videos, which will be seen at trial, the defendant is heard saying "you spilled the beer, you have snot on your face, did you go to the bathroom? Did you fall when you went to the bathroom?"

or "what did they do to you, what did they give you?"

and in another the victim says "three or four bottles, I want coke."

The defendant explained that there was insulin in the house as well as other sweeteners but that the victim did not ask for it and added that he recorded the videos with the victim's agony with her permission with the intention of showing him the images later so that he became aware of the harm that abusing drugs and alcohol caused him.

He also denied ever hitting the victim and assured that the injuries she had days before, such as a black eye or roasted ribs, were due to falls at home.

In his statement, he explained that he fell asleep next to the victim and that when he woke up he saw that she was "cold and I don't know what to do."

For this reason, he felt "shocked" and went to take the replacement car they had lent him to the garage while they fixed his and only later did he go to the Mossos d'Esquadra police station to explain that his partner had died at home and deliver the videos recorded with your mobile.

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