The defendant of the murder of an old age of 98 at the Municipal Residence ‘Virgen del Camino’ located in the San Mamés neighborhood, will not declare today and her testimony will be delayed until tomorrow Friday, in view of the very long extension of the session today.
The investigated will put the oral view of the trial tomorrow, which began on Monday at the Provincial Court and will end this Friday with the reading of the conclusions of the Fiscal and defense Ministry. The public accusation requires the penalty of permanent prison reviewable for the accused.
The nursing assistant is considered responsible for the death of a woman who was admitted to the center and with whom she had had an altercation. Since the management of the establishment sent the worker to her home, the prosecutor believes that in revenge he applied an insulin syringe that was lethal. The defense denies him and remembers that the victim did not die until 17 days later.
Forensic experts took the bulk of the morning. They appreciated signs compatible with an aggression in the victim’s body, despite the fact that the emergency doctor found none. “Sometimes the evidence takes a few hours,” said Dr. Alija. They found signs that the victim had received four punctures in the left thigh as made with a syringe: “someone who had preparation did. Treatments are not applied inside a thigh.” They were compatible with the theory of insulin that the prosecutor handles. “They were not insect bites.”
The victim entered the hospital “In Coma 3”, almost the lowest level “and caused hours for an insulin entrance eight times higher than normal.” The autopsy revealed that death was not due to an injury, but to a dysfunction “derived from hypoglycemia that we can strongly affirm that it was due to a high dose of insulin introduced into the body from outside and that generated irreversible neuronal damage.” The injection “that could only be of a slow insulin” had to practice “no less six hours earlier” from its emergency arrival.
Alija, in its usual didactic tone, explained to the jury how an insulin ‘boli’ is used and how easy it is to apply “a lethal dose” in just a few seconds. The defendant followed the reconstruction of the maneuver. There was not a single gesture of expression on his face.
According to him, death could not be due to Coronavirus. The PCR practiced to the patient upon arrival at the hospital discards that option. A urine infection was also rejected as a cause of death. The forensic denied that episodes of previous diabetes of the victim could have had a fatal drift. “If we suppose with absolute certainty the exact cause and time of death, surely no one would be here,” the great forensic was ironic.
Questioned by the defense about the absence of brands after a puncture of this type, Alija did not hesitate to inject into his own hand an empty insulin boli and showed the jury the president of the court the brands. “There they have it,” he said as the blood droplets dried.
An expert proposed by the defense rejected that the cause of the victim’s death was hypoglycemia. Asked then what was the reason for the death, he replied: “It is very difficult to know.” The president recriminated him twice the lack of respect for the prosecutor in his answers.
A niece of the victim had opened the morning. “I don’t want to get anything out of this, I just ask justice to be done.”
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