The jury finds Jorge Ignacio Palma guilty of killing Marta Calvo, Arliene Ramos and Lady Marcela

• Trial The alleged murderer of Marta Calvo denies the facts: "I felt very unhappy, I just wanted to have a good time"

• Penalties The alleged murderer of Marta Calvo and two other girls faces the request for reviewable permanent prison

There is already a verdict in one of the most mediatic trials of recent years in Valencia.

The jury has found

guilty of the death of Marta Calvo -whose body has still not appeared-,

and

.

In addition, he considers him guilty of sexually abusing seven other women.

It has been considered proven, therefore, that he introduced cocaine rocks to their genitals, with lethal consequences in the first three cases.

According to the magistrate, "no reason for contradiction has been found" in the verdict that would justify his return.

In the public reading of the minutes, the jury has also unanimously rejected that benefits of the suspension of the execution of the sentence can be granted, while it has reported unfavorably that the request for pardon be included in the sentence.

In the case of Marta Calvo, the jury found Palma guilty of having killed her by causing her acute cocaine intoxication, as a lethal, surreptitious, explosive means and without risk to him and as an act of macho domination.

The jury also understands that "by making the young woman's body disappear, it hides the cause of her death," which "imposes greater anguish on the family."

This is the main conclusion of a verdict for which the jury - made up of seven women and two men - has had to face the 700 questions collected in 143 pages, after a trial that started on June 13 and has been developed throughout 23 sessions.

The culminating moment came when Palma, of Colombian origin and the only defendant in this trial, starred in a statement in which he declared himself innocent of all crimes.

As he has always maintained since he turned himself in at the end of 2019 -21 days after the disappearance of Marta Calvo-, Palma only claimed to have dismembered the body of the young woman with whom he met through a contact website.

According to his version, which the jury has not believed, he woke up next to the young woman when she was already dead and, out of panic, he chopped up her body to throw the mortal remains into containers in Silla and Alzira.

"I felt very unhappy, I just wanted to have a good time," he stated before the jury, before whom he also denied having killed and abused the rest of the women and having forced them with drugs at the so-called "white parties."

Investigators never gave credibility to this story, because the intense search for the landfills never gave results and because no trace of blood or cleaning products was found in

's home (Valencia) where Palma was with Marta.

This location that the young woman sent to her mother,

, the night before she disappeared was key to starting to pull the thread of the investigation and connect the rest of the deaths and sexual abuse.

In fact, the prosecutor in the case maintained that all the victims were prostitutes because, basically, they were "a very easy target" for their sexual games.

She even left the door open for more victims.

Also the mother of Marta Calvo, who day after day has begged Palma to say where her daughter's body was, was convinced that she did not reveal it because the mortal remains of other women would be next to her.

The prosecutor requests sentences that add up to 120 years in prison for sexual abuse as a necessary means for a crime of homicide committed against Marta Calvo, Arliene Ramos and Lady Marcela Vargas, sexual abuse against seven other women and a crime against public health, while the accusations -including Marisol Burón- have requested a reviewable permanent prison for three treacherous murders.

The defense requested acquittal on the grounds that there is no evidence to incriminate Jorge Ignacio Palma.

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