Gema Peñalosa Madrid

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Updated Friday, February 9, 2024-00:01

  • Events Crime of Castro Urdiales' mother: "The children had good behavior, they were not conflictive, they studied well"

  • Events The 13 and 15 year old boys accused of killing their mother with a stab in the neck in Castro Urdiales confessed the crime to their grandmother

The 13- and 15-year-old boys arrested for killing their mother in Castro Urdiales (Cantabria) last Wednesday afternoon wanted to flee with the body that seemed unviable from the beginning. The intention, as investigation sources reveal to EL MUNDO, was to escape from her by driving her mother's car, with her inside it, after committing the crime and getting rid of it in some section of the imaginary route they traced. With this intention, J. and E. started the vehicle - after having picked up

Silvia

, who was already dead - to leave the family garage, but when one of them put his foot on the accelerator, the vehicle crashed against the wall.

It was the end of the maddening episode that the brothers had signed moments before in the family apartment.

Silvia

and the children were at home and, for reasons that have not yet been revealed, an argument began. One of them fatally stabbed her in the neck with a knife. After her, sources from her investigation specify, they stripped her naked - something that baffles the agents investigating the circumstances of the case - and put a garbage bag on her head.

With her on their back, they went down to the garage without any neighbors seeing them, put her in the back seat and started the vehicle with the idea of ​​fleeing. The person who was trying to act as the driver accelerated that he could not control and the car crashed against the wall. At that moment, the two teenagers decided to leave their house. It was just after 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.

J. and E. - biological siblings whom Silvia and her husband adopted years ago - made a call to their maternal grandmother assuring her that they had been victims of a kidnapping. The clock passed 9:00 p.m. In a second communication, they confessed that something had happened with her mother and they disconnected her cell phone. The grandmother had notified the Civil Guard when they told her that they had been kidnapped.

When that second call occurred, therefore, the agents had already discovered

Silvia

's body in the garage. They had also entered the house and were surprised by the state she was in. The home was in disarray and investigators found evidence that a violent fight had occurred.

The hypothesis that it could be a case of sexist violence lost steam as soon as the investigation began when it was discovered that her husband was working in a factory in Llodio (Álava). The idea that the man could have disappeared with his children was discarded. "He was devastated, he couldn't believe it," the same sources recall about the state of the children's father when they gave him the news of Silvia's death.

Finding the children was a priority. For this reason, the Police established controls at all points of Castro Urdiales and also at the entrances to try to locate the brothers. The two minors were searched in cars, trunks, containers and doorways where they could have taken refuge. They were moments of great confusion. Police resources and an ambulance were mobilized. Five hours after the discovery of Silvia's body, the two brothers were located in the Cotolino park in Castro Urdiales. It was 2:15 a.m.

The brothers were hiding in the cliffs of the town's Cotolino park. The agents no longer have any doubts that the minors are behind their mother's death. The meeting with both was cold. Neither child said anything to the officers and appeared to be "calm." One accepted the arrest without saying a word, according to the same sources consulted. The other one ran and hid in the forest. The Civil Guard located him more than an hour later and also arrested him.

Investigators from the Judicial Police of the Armed Institute are now focused on determining what could have led the minors to commit the crime. To this end, they have already started a round of statements from the family environment with the aim of making an assessment of what the relationship was like between the members of the family unit or if any of the children could have a pathology or if fights were frequent. . There are no previous complaints in this regard and, in a first photograph, it is a family with no apparent problems. Investigators believe the testimony of the children's father is essential, which will occur when circumstances allow given the state of "shock" in which he is found.

The 15-year-old minor was placed at the disposal of the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office while his brother, 13 and therefore unimpeachable, remains in a primary care center waiting for a report to be made assessing whether he can or cannot return to his family, with his father specifically.

The oldest is already in a closed juvenile center after the judge ordered his detention yesterday afternoon for the "alleged commission" of a crime of murder, as stated in the order to which this newspaper has had access. The court has imposed this measure on him for a period of six months, extendable until the trial is held and there is a final sentence.

The boy was examined by the technical team assigned to the Santander Juvenile Court, which issued a report. Afterwards, the Prosecutor's Office took his statement and then asked the corresponding court to adopt a precautionary measure of detention.