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

The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a condemned to permanent prison reviewable for letting his partner die of a diabetic coma and recording her agony with the mobile phone, without helping her, in her home in Viladecans in 2019. The Court of Barcelona sentenced him to this penalty for a crime of murder in addition to two and a half years for several crimes of habitual abuse of gender violence and another privacy for the videos he recorded of the victim without his permission. The High Court of Justice of Catalonia confirmed the sentence and now the Supreme Court ratifies the decision.

The convicted began a sentimental relationship, without cohabitation, with the victim, between February and March 2019, and that, little by little, was imposed on her, controlling and belittling her in public and in private, making her feel inferior, and maintaining several discussions in which the woman was assaulted by him. The convict knew that his partner suffered from diabetes and was insulin dependent, that he needed to inject the drug daily. On the night of June 17, 2019, the woman was unwell and phoned him to come to her house to help her. When he arrived at the house, according to the proven facts, he found the victim very physically deteriorated, with breathing difficulties and no motor articulation, which prevented him from doing anything for himself.

The man realized that he needed someone to help her, however, he did not help her and until 3:39 am on the 18th he contemplated how "the woman was deteriorating more and more, losing consciousness and her life was extinguished", and while contemplating her, the sufferings of the woman were increasing until suffering a hyperglycemia that caused multi-organ failure and death.

The sentence notes that the victim would not have died if the aggressor had called the emergency medical services and if he did nothing to help her "it was because he wanted her death to occur, or because he foresaw that it could occur and he did not care if he died." While dying and without the woman's permission, the condemned man recorded with his mobile phone 15 videos of the deterioration of his partner to show the images to third parties and make them see in some sequences that he was about to help her. In this way, he tried to build an alibi in case an investigation was launched into the facts, according to the court.

The Supreme Court emphasizes the cruelty of the condemned since he wanted to deliberately and inhumanely increase the suffering of the victim, causing her unnecessary suffering. "The humiliating, humiliating and brutal behavior, causing these accredited psychic damages, was not necessary to ensure death, but only served to deliberately increase the suffering that the victim suffered during his long agony," says the court, which also emphasizes that the victim was a particularly vulnerable person due to his illness.

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