A hairdresser was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his partner with 47 stab wounds

A 30-year-old Venezuelan hairdresser was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his partner with 47 stab wounds in the Flores neighborhood of Buenos Aires in 2021. This was ordered on Friday by the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court 17 of the federal capital, which decided to frame the fact under the crime of “double aggravated homicide for having been committed against a person with whom he had a relationship and for having mediated gender violence”.

The convict is Jose Antonio Rangel Moyetona young man who at the time of the events was 28 years old and had been living in the country for 3 years, on the ground floor of an apartment at 2900 rue Yerbal in the capital, where on the morning of Sunday April 18, after a heated discussion , took a knife and killed his partner Mayerling Mariana Blanco Bravowith whom he lived with his 3-year-old son.

According to the investigation into the case, which involved monitoring conversations and testimonies of relatives, the 25-year-old – also from Venezuela – told Rangel Moyeton for several days that they wanted to separate because of the physical and psychological violence that he exercised in the bond.

The attack was brutal. According to the results of the autopsy carried out by the Forensic Corps, the Venezuelan – who worked as a barber in a local Recoleta – raped his partner “at least 47 head, neck, chest and arm injuries”. “The most serious injury was to the chest; it caused injury to the lung and pleura, which generated internal and external bleeding. (…) The body of the victim was found by his sister-in-law, the sister of the aggressor. It was a neighbor who called the police and also said that the couple’s son had witnessed the femicide,” the prosecution said in a statement.

The hairdresser hid the body between two beds and under sheets and escaped. He was a fugitive for 4 days, during which the Municipal Police Homicide Division intervened, which after an intense search managed to find him in a hotel in the Balvanera neighborhood. With all of this verified, the prosecutor Maria Luz Castanyofficial of the Attorney General’s Office 30, in his argument of the oral debate said: “This case is a intimate femicide: It is proven that they were in a relationship. These feminicides are characterized by history of abuse: psychological, physical, verbal, economicwhether the victim has denounced it or not”.

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The charge sought to prove the atmosphere of violence in which the victim lived during the cohabitation. For which he exhibited a talk where “the aggressor wrote to him two days before the femicide that if he did not report to him, ‘it was with no one’: I kill myself and I kill you“”, added the MPF. “The motive for the femicide was linked to the fact that Mariana no longer wanted to be with him,” said the prosecution..

Various testimonies during the criminal proceedings gave an account of the abuse exercised by the aggressor, where threats, manipulations and even bruises on the eyes were verified. They are also recording what their apartment building neighbor said, who was also responsible for looking after the couple’s son. She stated that “several times he saw her beaten and that the victim himself told him that Rangel Moyeton he was addicted and that they argued a lot,” the MPF statement read.

Thus, the oral tribunal – composed of judges Juan Judge Bravo, Pablo Vega there Silvia Guzzardi– considered as proven the cause of aggravation of the homicide by gender violence. He also considered that the aggravating circumstance of the link had been demonstrated, in accordance with the position of the prosecutor, who in his indictment explained that the Venezuelan, at the time of committing the act, “benefits from all the information he knows in because of the trust that exists between the two for the purpose of committing the crime more efficiently”.

The prosecution had also requested a longer sentence under the “ruthlessness” linked to the at least 47 stab wounds recorded on the victim’s body. “It’s a cruel way to kill and it happens when the perpetrator inflicts unnecessary physical and mental suffering, the action is aimed at killing by causing the victim to suffer in a cruel way,” he said. However, this was dismissed by the judges of the Court, in a sentence which will formalize its foundations on March 3.

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