17 years in prison for the woman who killed her aunt and put her in a suitcase in Sineu

PalmThe 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.