• Courts Sentenced to reviewable permanent prison for letting his partner die with a diabetic coma and recording his agony

Mariano Daniel Vásquez will remain in prison for the death of his former partner.

This is how the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) considers it, which rejected the prisoner's appeal and maintains the sentence imposed by the Jury Court of the Barcelona Court with a reviewable permanent prison sentence for letting his ex-partner die when he suffered a diabetic coma at his home in Viladecans in June 2019 in addition to filming his agony.

The court considered the convicted person responsible for a crime of murder with cruelty to a vulnerable person, three of abuse in the field of sexist violence, one of habitual abuse and one against the privacy of women, a person "especially vulnerable due to his illness" .

The couple began a relationship in February 2019, although the condemned man began to control her, belittle her and beat her, for which she felt inferior to her.

For this reason, the victim fell into a depressive state and locked herself in her house, not wanting to see anyone.

On the night of June 17, 2019, she called the condemned man to come to her house to help her and he found her physically very deteriorated, with respiratory difficulties and unable to do anything on her own.

The sentence indicates that the convicted person did not give her any kind of help and she watched for five hours as she deteriorated, lost consciousness and "life was extinguished", until she suffered hyperglycemia that caused her death. .

In addition, it indicates that if the convicted person had notified the medical emergency she would not have died and that he violated the victim's privacy by filming the woman in her progressive deterioration with a mobile phone "to show the images to third parties", to try to make to see that he took care of her "and thus build an alibi" in case her death was investigated.

The TSJC has confirmed this sentence and the convicted person will continue in prison for this crime.

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