The Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León (TSJCyL) will celebrate this Tuesday, May 6, the view for the appeal filed by David ML’s defense, sentenced to 25 years in jail for the murder of Paloma P. already the permanent revisable for the also murder of the daughter of the latter, India, eight years He shared with them on the Paseo de Zorrilla de Valladolid.
The defense appealed the ruling of the Jury Court of the Provincial Court of Valladolid that meant the conviction to David ML and now it will be the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJCyL that sees the appeal on the 6th, they have informed Europa Press sources of the High Court.
On December 19, 2024, the popular jury ruled about the guilt of the defendant, who considered, unanimously, author of two murders with the aggravating kinship, gender and, in the case of pigeon, crimes, crimes that they also understood that they were committed by David de Forme absolutely conscious. A month later the hearing issued a sentence with penalties received by the executioner of mother and daughter that could lead him to effectively fulfill a total of 30 years.
In this ruling, the magistrate imposed 25 years in jail for the murder with alevosía and cruelty of his sentimental partner, with the gravings of kinship and of acting for gender reasons. For the murder with the girl’s alevosía, with the aggravating kinship, he condemned permanent prison.
As security measures, for the murder of Paloma, the sentence imposed the prohibition of approaching less than 500 meters from the mother and the two sisters of the deceased and communicating with them for 35 years, a measure that in the case of the murder of the little girl was established for ten years, at older than the penalty imposed, with respect to her biological father. It also established eight years of freedom.
In civil liability, compensation was established for Paloma’s mother of 113,000 euros and 25,000 to each of its two sisters, as well as with 160,000 euros to the Biological Father of India.
All the accusations, the public, the three individuals exercised by the mother and sisters of Paloma, the biological father of the girl and the Junta de Castilla y León, in addition to the popular represented by the Clara Campoamor association, had requested 25 years in prison for the murder of the mother and permanent prison revised by the little girl, while the defense, which initially understood that both deaths were constitutive of two homicides- Modify the purpose of asking the court for the minimum possible penalties.
The process was characterized by the tension lived during the four days of the trial, especially when the forensic expert evidence detailed the brutality of the knife inflicted on the girl led her father and two other relatives to jump as springs from among the public and to star in an attempt to lynch the executioner of the little girl.
The double crime occurred at dawn on January 23, 2023 on an apartment on the Paseo de Zorrilla de Valladolid, at whose door David ML was presented after having spent the afternoon drinking some glasses with friends in the town of La Cistérniga and in the capital.
After crossing the Paloma entrance, there was a discussion, whose origin has not been clarified, and in the kitchen the defendant, armed with a large knife, began to give him a knife indiscriminately, up to 15, when she was in a lower plane in the ground. They were mortal because they reached his heart and lungs. He even covered his mouth to try to silence his screams, hence the total objectified wounds rose to a total of 27, among those produced by the white weapon and other erosions and bruise product.
The girl, who heard the scene, ran to the room where she knew there was a mother’s mobile and took it to call 112 from the lounge sofa, where David assaulted her five knife, the first of them brutal, mortal of necessity, because she crossed her skull, three others on her back and one more among the breasts, without specifying the order of these last four.
After killing the victims, David ML tried to contact their two sisters, and it is one of them who took the phone. “I’ve killed Paloma and India!”
Fully aware of their actions
The National Police agents and the doctors who, as soon as they arrive on the stage of the crime, attended David in the first moments and led him to the ambulance were unanimous by pointing out that the defendant was fully aware of the one he had “liad”, as he himself warned the nurse who went in the ambulance.
It reinforces David’s full awareness at the time of the categorical expert facts of the forensic, who rejected any alteration of the volitional abilities and to want David despite the fact that he, in his statement in the trial and later exercising his right to some last words, claimed that one of the friends with whom he had been cups gave him Fentanil. From that moment on, he does not remember anything, until he woke up in the hospital, he says, and he believed he was a victim of a traffic accident.
In addition to flatly ruling out that alleged amnesia by the intake of chemicals, the accusations understood that both deaths occurred in a furious way since none of the victims could defend themselves, especially the small, of special vulnerability, to which they added the surprise vulnerability because she attacked her on her back. They also charged the coexistence alevosía that led the victims to lower or relax the protection barriers and another alevosía derived from the small space, the kitchen, in which David ended the life of Paloma.
“I killed her because it was mine!”
Together with the aggravating kinship, who did not even denied the defense, all the accusers, except for the prosecutor, kept at all times that the aggravating aggravating and gender also attended the facts, as the verdict picked up, in the latter sense that the death of Paloma is faithful exponent of the domination of the man over the woman or of the saying: “I killed her because it was mine!”
What did come to light throughout the trial was the robot portrait or impulsive, violent, jealous, macho and narcissistic profile of David, a man whom he also appeared as a “compulsive liar” and a “book actor”, since from the beginning he tried to “emboda” the mother of Paloma while trying to separate her from her sisters and create bad atmosphere in the family.
On the opposite side, the defense had clung to the thesis of alcohol and drug use of his client and his violent reactions when he consumed, increased by his special personality, and in line with it, he rejected that the two deaths were alevosas-they described as two homicides-to understand that there was no cognitive or volitional capacity of the accused by that intake, without the aggravating aggravating agravan Neither gender.
