Overview
- The provincial court found the pair drugged the 70-year-old, bound and gagged him, attached a sack of quicklime, and threw him into the Tera at Lake Sanabria, causing death by drowning.
- The woman was convicted of murder with treachery to facilitate another crime and the man of murder with treachery, reflecting the jury’s assessment of their roles.
- Judges concluded the motive was financial, noting the woman continued receiving the victim’s pension payments from Portugal and the United Kingdom after his death.
- The two must jointly pay €120,000 in compensation to the victim’s daughter, who reported his disappearance, and most legal costs were imposed on the convicts.
- A third accused was acquitted, the sentences are not final and can be appealed to the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Castilla y León, and the woman remains in pretrial custody while the man is imprisoned for other causes.