The prosecutor maintains his request for 25 years in prison for the accused of beheading her partner in Cantabria

The children of the deceased, who exercise the private prosecution, insist on the reviewable permanent prison and the defense in free acquittal

SANTANDER, 17 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The prosecutor in the case of the 'Castro Urdiales skull' has raised his conclusions to final on the penultimate day of the trial against Carmen Merino, accused of beheading her partner, Jesús María Baranda, and for whom the public ministry is demanding 25 years in prison for a crime of murder with treachery (impossibility of defense) and with the aggravating circumstance of kinship.

For its part, the private prosecution - exercised by the children of the deceased, a 67-year-old retired Basque banker when he disappeared - has insisted on the final stretch of the oral hearing in permanent prison reviewable for the same illegal act of the defendant, a native of Seville 64 years old, admitted to the El Dueso prison (Santoña) since the macabre discovery, in September 2019.

Secondarily, the relatives are interested in the same penalty as the Prosecutor's Office, while the defense lawyer has reiterated the free acquittal for his sponsored, although he has introduced the crime of concealment in a subsidiary way, without any compensation. In the case of the prosecutor, he asks for 20,000 euros for each of Baranda's two children and her brother, since he has finally withdrawn the request for her cousin; while the private prosecution maintains the 35,000 euros of compensation for all of them for the moral damage caused.

Merino has denied his participation in the events by assuring that in the package that he had delivered months before to a friend of his to keep it for him there were sex toys and not the head of who for seven years had been his sentimental partner, with whom he lived in Padre Basabe street in the Cantabrian town.

The man was last seen alive in February and a cousin of his reported him missing in April. The body has not yet been found.

The plenary, with a jury, is taking place this week and the previous one in the Third Section of the Provincial Court of Cantabria, and this Thursday focuses on the conclusions and final reports and the right to the last word of the accused.

The trial began with the interrogation of Merino, which was divided into two sessions and only answered questions from his lawyer. In her statement, she pointed to the friend to whom she delivered the package, assuring that after opening it and seeing the contents, she told her: "I have a gift for you, the head of Jesus in a box," an extreme that this key witness in the case rejected. case, which accused the suspect of lying.