Another script twist in the case of Marta del Castillo casts doubt on the official version 13 years later

• False testimony El Cuco admits before the judge that he lied in the trial of the crime of Marta del Castillo

• Judgment The "plan" of Cuco and his mother... was to lie

Marta del Castillo was killed around nine o'clock at night on January 24, 2009. According to the sentence by which the

condemned

as the perpetrator of the crime, both argued on account of the sentimental relationship that they had maintained in the past and, at one point, he grabbed an ashtray and gave her a

to the head.

The sentence also declared proven that the only

convicted

, alias el

, and that between the two of them and with "the help of at least one unknown third party" they got rid of the body.

Thirteen years and dozens of statements later, the then minor admitted yesterday what the courts had already pointed out and he always denied, that he was

at the time they disposed of the young woman's body.

El

admitted having lied when on October 25, 2011, before the court of the Sevillian Court that prosecuted the defendants of legal age, he assured that he did not set foot on Miguel's apartment that day and that, instead, he was with a group of friends making a bottle in the Polígono San Pablo.

And his parents

.

Francisco Javier García and his mother - his father died a few years ago - sat yesterday on the bench accused, precisely, of a

, which they openly acknowledged without answering any questions.

The confession of his lies is the umpteenth plot twist in the Marta del Castillo case and although

at the judicial level - those who were acquitted cannot be tried again and the two sentences handed down are firm and immovable - yes They call into question the judicial truths that until now were known about what happened that night and who participated.

judicial truths

Especially since the court of the Seventh Section of the Court that convicted Carcaño -and acquitted his brother,

, his girlfriend,

, and

established a

based, in part, on , in the testimony of

and his parents, placing the disappearance of Marta's body at around ten o'clock at night, which was when the man convicted of concealment had no alibi.

As of 11:30 p.m., she already had the one provided by her parents, who have now admitted that she was fictitious.

remains as

to what time they really hid Marta's body and, in this sense, the sentence of the Juvenile Judge pointed out as more likely the hypothesis that this had happened after one in the morning.

At that time, according to yesterday's confession,

didn't have an alibi, but even more striking is that those who were acquitted didn't have one either.

In the sentence signed by magistrate

, the rest of the defendants were directly pointed out for their participation in Marta's crime, but without expressly mentioning them, much less condemning them, since they were later tried by the Seville Court.

Relatives and neighbors of Marta del Castillo ask for a new trial at the gates of the Seville courts. EFE

Marta's family has always maintained that

lied

others involved, in particular Carcaño's brother, whom they consider not only the mastermind but also the material author of the young woman's death, although judicially that door was also They closed the parents and it is almost impossible for it to reopen.

Both

and his mother now face a possible sentence of

, although the lawyer representing Marta's parents,

, believes that what they have tried above all else is to prevent Carcaño from testifying.

Marta's (official) murderer was summoned for next Tuesday, but the Criminal Judge 7 agreed yesterday, after acknowledging the false testimony, to

pending evidence except the statement of the victim's parents.

"It's a mockery of Justice," complained Torres, who pointed out that the objective of

and

was, fundamentally, for Carcaño to give testimony and they could ask him about the

of his daughter.

"It's a bittersweet taste," he added.

All this after the lawyer who represents

,

, tried

alleging that his client had been forced to testify as a witness in the trial of the adults when he still had the right not to testify because he did not know that his sentence was already firm.

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