The Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands has sentenced the man accused of murder to 13 years in prison. your romantic partner in the Coanegra stream in Palma, events that date back to December 2024.

The case of the baby found dead in a dumpster in Portocristo in November 2023 has reached a verdict. The jury at the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands unanimously found the mother and her brother-in-law guilty of the infant's death. According to the court, both acted knowing the baby had been born alive and yet decided to abandon him in a dumpster without seeking any assistance. The jury concluded that this decision was made with the intention of causing his death. The events took place after a birth inside a vehicle, in which the mother's sister and brother-in-law were also traveling. The newborn was subsequently thrown into a dumpster on a street in Portocristo. A witness alerted the local police, who took the baby to a hospital, where his death was confirmed. The third defendant, the mother's sister, was found guilty of failing to provide assistance, as the jury determined that she was aware of the baby's extremely dangerous situation and did nothing, even though she could have. Following the verdict, the prosecution maintains its request for life imprisonment with the possibility of parole for the mother and her brother-in-law for murder with the aggravating circumstance of kinship. The final decision on sentencing will rest with the judge, who will issue the sentence in the coming days. The session was marked by the absence of the main defendant, who did not appear for the reading of the verdict. In response, the judge issued an arrest warrant for her. Meanwhile, the brother-in-law was remanded in custody after the hearing held this Sunday.

The First Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands sentenced a woman to six years in prison this Friday for attempting to murder her husband while he slept with their two-year-old daughter in Palma. The court issued a plea agreement after the parties reached a settlement before the trial. This reduced the prosecution's initial request for an 11-year sentence. In addition to the prison sentence—she has been incarcerated since the incident in October 2024—she has been stripped of her parental rights over their daughter for the duration of her sentence and must pay the victim €10,700 in compensation for the injuries and resulting trauma. The woman admitted that on the morning of October 19, 2024, at the family home in Palma, while her husband slept with their two-year-old daughter, she stabbed him several times in the chest with a large knife. Although the man woke up, his wife continued stabbing him in the chest, armpit, and right arm. At the same time, she put her fingers in his mouth and, when he began to scream in pain, she silenced him. At one point, the victim managed to wrest the knife from her and get the child to safety.

The 27-year-old woman who died in Palma in early February of last year did not die from a drug overdose, as initially suspected, but was allegedly asphyxiated by her partner, according to sources close to the investigation. Although initial indications pointed to a possible death by drug abuse, the autopsy and subsequent forensic tests have determined that the young woman died of asphyxiation, which has completely redirected the police investigation. Following these new findings, the police arrested the victim's partner on Monday as the suspected perpetrator of homicide. He is a 42-year-old Spanish national who remains in police custody awaiting a court appearance. According to the same sources, he is not expected to appear before the duty judge on Wednesday, so he could be brought before the judge on Thursday. The Ministry of Equality confirmed on Tuesday that the case has been officially classified as a gender-based violence crime. This is the 47th murder of a woman in Spain in 2025 and the second to occur in Mallorca last year. Both the victim and the alleged perpetrator were registered in the VioGén monitoring system, although the reports of gender-based violence were related to previous relationships they had with other people. Following the confirmation of the gender-based crime, the Balearic Government has called for a minute of silence at noon this Wednesday in front of the Presidency headquarters, at the Consulate of the Sea in Palma, as a show of institutional rejection and support for the victims of gender-based violence.

The jury trial of the man accused of killing one of the assailants who broke into his home to steal marijuana plants began this Monday at the Provincial Court of Palma. The prosecutor asserted in the first session that "there is more than enough evidence for a conviction" and maintained that there is no dispute that the accused caused the victim's death. The hearing began after 1 p.m., following the selection of the jury, which will determine the guilt or innocence of both the homeowner, accused of homicide, and the other three men, charged with attempted robbery. The prosecution is requesting a 15-year prison sentence for the homeowner and 11 months for each of the three assailants. It is also seeking approximately €157,000 in compensation for the victim's family. During the preliminary hearing and the reading of the initial reports, the prosecutor emphasized that "the fact that the accused killed a person is not in dispute" and that the evidence presented supports a conviction. The defense attorneys for the mother, sister, and father of the deceased young man went further, arguing that the events constitute not manslaughter, but murder, based on two aggravating circumstances: surprise and cruelty. They argued that the victim was attacked from behind and received "a large number of stab wounds" until he bled to death. "It wasn't a three-on-one situation, but rather an unarmed person who was surprised and repeatedly stabbed," stated the lawyer for the young man's father.

The Provincial Court of Palma has sentenced a woman to 17 years in prison for killing her 91-year-old aunt and stuffing her body into a suitcase in Sineu. The defendant reached a plea agreement with the prosecution and admitted to the homicide charge, the Balearic Islands High Court (TSJIB) reported. The presiding judge of the jury trial, in a hearing held Friday morning, handed down the 17-year prison sentence and absolute disqualification from holding public office orally. The written judgment will be issued and made public in the coming days. According to the prosecution, the defendant took in her 91-year-old aunt, whom she cared for due to her progressive cognitive decline and the resulting memory lapses and difficulties walking and feeding herself. On April 14, 2024, he began to beat her "indiscriminately," sat on her, pressing his knees down on her, and stabbed her in the chest, causing her death. In an attempt to evade responsibility for these criminal acts, he tried to stage an accidental death and devised a plan to deceive both the medical services and the police. To do this, he scrubbed the floor, cleaned the blood from the furniture in the house, and placed the victim's lifeless body in a large suitcase. He then drove it to his home in Palma, from where he called the health center and emergency services, telling them that the woman had died and requesting a death certificate. The woman who confessed to the Sineu suitcase murder had already shown her willingness to reach the agreement that materialized this Friday and accepted the 17-year prison sentence requested by the prosecution. The woman agreed with the legal classification, facts, and penalties defended by the Public Prosecutor's Office and did not submit an alternative statement.

The National Police have opened an investigation into the possible violent death of a 90-year-old woman at her home in Son Macià, Manacor (Mallorca). According to sources close to the investigation, the woman's body was found this Friday at midday by her son, who alerted the emergency services. The National Police Homicide Unit and the Scientific Police have been mobilized and are inspecting the house. It is expected that, once the inspection is complete, a judicial commission will remove the body and transfer it to the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences to determine the cause of death.

The woman accused of the deadly fire in Les Països (Ibiza), in which an elderly man lost his life, has denied that she approached the home of the victim, her partner's father, in the early hours of August 3, 2023, and set it on fire. The jury trial enters its final stage this Monday with the defendant's testimony, for whom the prosecution is seeking a life sentence with the possibility of parole, and the reading of the parties' reports. The woman only answered questions posed by her lawyer, Cándido Valladolid, and denied all the accusations against her. However, she did acknowledge leaving her home that night at 1:05 a.m., but denied going to the victim's house.

The Civil Guard's investigation into the fire that killed an elderly man in a house in Les Països, Ibiza, focused from the outset on the woman now on trial, due to her history of violence, a previous fire, and disagreements she had with the victim's family. The prosecution is seeking life imprisonment with the possibility of parole for the crime of murder. The investigating officers testified this Wednesday before the jury at the Provincial Court of Palma, where they explained that the initial inspections of the house already pointed to arson. The victim's son, initially a suspect, was quickly ruled out after it was confirmed that he was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of Can Misses Hospital at the time of the incident. The cameras, key to identifying her

The investigation took a decisive turn with the security camera footage from the accused's home. In some fifty recordings, the woman is seen leaving and returning to her residence wearing different clothes and with her face hidden under a veil. "She wore it so the neighbors wouldn't recognize her," explained the officers, who have "no doubt" that it is the defendant.

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The daughter of the man who died in the house fire in Les Països (Ibiza) in August 2023 testified this Tuesday at the Palma Provincial Court. She had already warned that the accused, who was her brother's partner at the time, "was a dangerous woman." "Since she came into our lives, my brother attempted suicide and my father was murdered," she stated before the jury.

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The prosecutor in charge of the case of the woman accused of murdering a vulnerable elderly man in her care in 2023 in Ibiza has stated that the defendant "knew perfectly well what she was doing at the time of the events" and that she intended to carry it out, despite suffering from schizoaffective disorder. In a trial that began this Monday at the Balearic Islands Provincial Court, following the formation of the jury that will judge her, prosecutor Mamen Navarro explained that, based on forensic analysis, the woman, despite suffering from a mental disorder, was fully aware of what she was doing, as was the victim. The prosecution is seeking a life sentence with the possibility of parole, as is the private prosecution brought by the deceased's family, against ICN, who allegedly murdered a vulnerable elderly man in August by setting fire to his house, where two other people were present but managed to escape the flames alive.

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The presiding judge of the Jury Court of the Provincial Court of Palma dissolved the jury in the trial for the death of a baby who was thrown into a dumpster in Portocristo (Mallorca) and decided to suspend the proceedings indefinitely. The decision, according to the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB), was made due to doubts raised regarding the competence of an expert witness who testified at the request of the defendants' lawyers. The judge considered that the only piece of evidence presented by the defense, this report, could not be considered valid evidence, given that the Criminal Procedure Law requires that the person preparing the report hold an official qualification. Therefore, she considered that the trial could not continue, as the defense would be left without evidence and the principle of equality of arms, as well as the right to a defense and effective judicial protection guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution, would be violated.

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The municipal cemetery of Pollença hosted a very moving ceremony this Wednesday in which the remains of Bartomeu Fornés Bordoy, murdered by the Franco regime in the Son Coletes cemetery in Manacor on August 27, 1936, were returned to his family 40 years later. The mortal remains of this victim of the Francoist coup were exhumed from the mass grave in the Manacor cemetery during the third excavation campaign in 2023, and were successfully identified from a bone sample compared with an DNA sample from the handover of his father's remains. The identification of Bartomeu Fornés was confirmed last May, along with that of other Republican victims such as the brother of Aurora Picornell, whose remains were also found in the Son Coletes cemetery.

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The jury trial for the death of the baby abandoned in a manure container in Portocristo may be suspended and has been postponed until next Wednesday after the judge reported that one of the expert witnesses who testified on Tuesday may not have the required medical qualifications. The expert in question, Carlos Cuadrado Gómez-Serranillos, previously convicted of fraud in the sale of training courses, testified at the request of the defense for the baby's mother. died in November 2023 shortly after birthSeveral local media outlets reported that his medical degree might not be valid, which created uncertainty about the validity of his statement.

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The doctors who treated the baby found in a dumpster in Portocristo believe the child was born alive. They declared this Tuesday during the second session of the jury trial taking place at the Provincial Court, where The mother and brother-in-law are accused of murder and the woman's sister, for failure to provide assistance.

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The jury trial against the mother and uncle of a baby who died after being thrown into a dumpster in Portocristo in November 2023 will begin next Monday after the jury has been convened.

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Model and singer Fede Dorcaz, 29, was shot dead in Mexico City while driving his car. Although he was born in Argentina, his life and connection with Mallorca were very close, as he grew up on the island after his parents moved there.

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The Civil Guard has arrested the partner of the 45-year-old Italian woman who died this Sunday in Les Pujols (Formentera) in a possible domestic violence murder. The detainee is also an Italian national, and investigators from the Judicial Police, deployed from Mallorca, continue their investigation to determine how the woman died.

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The Civil Guard is investigating the discovery of the body of a 57-year-old Spanish man, who was found around 10:00 a.m. this Wednesday. Sources from the Civil Guard have confirmed that an autopsy will be necessary to confirm or rule out a violent death.

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The autopsy performed on the body of Matilde Muñoz, the 72-year-old Mallorcan woman who disappeared on the Indonesian island of Lombok on July 2 and was found dead at the end of August, confirmed that the cause of death was asphyxiation, in addition to presenting signs of blunt force trauma to the head and neck.

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