GUILTY OF KILLING HIS OWN CHILDREN

The jury sitting in the trial of José Bretón, accused of the murder of his two children, Ruth and José, in October, 2011 in Córdoba, have found him guilty of the crime of murder after deliberating for a number of days this week.

Bretón’s trial for the death of his two children concluded on Monday with the defence requesting acquittal, rather than the 40 years in prison for double murder that the prosecutors maintained. The conclusion of the deliberation being that there is “no doubt” that he both planned to and enacted the ending of the lives of Ruth and José, aged 6 and 2 respectively, in revenge for his ex-wife leaving him.

To do this, he gathered large amounts of fuel and firewood in the days before the murder, and, on October the 8th, the took the children to the family estate of Las Quemadillas, drugging them with tranquillizers, before burning their bodies on a metal table, used as a funeral pyre.

Expert evidence has not been able to confirm the cause of death however, although anthropologists have certified that the skeletal remains found in the fire were the bodies of the children and not just the bones of animals as was claimed.

In the 15 sittings at the court, 144 witnesses were called to testify and with the lack of witnesses to the crime, and a deficiency in actually physical evidence, the jury of seven women and two men, retired at 12:00 on Tuesday, agreeing their verdict at 11:00 on Friday morning, with a vote of just five required to confirm this status.

The judge presiding in the case, Pedro Vela, passed the verdict to Bretón at 13:00 in the Provincial Court of Córdoba. Bretón will be sentenced in the next few days.

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