The popular jury has issued a unanimous verdict of guilty against the three accused of . The friends planned a robbery that ended in a triple crime and concentrated their defense in the trial on their drug addiction, but this mitigating circumstance has not been considered by the jury. The events occurred in a home in the Medina Azahara urbanization, where Ángel Villar and Elvira Fernández, ages 52 and 53, their daughter Laura, and their youngest son Yeray, 22, lived, who managed to escape through a window. The couple and their eldest daughter were brutally murdered by Fernando Peña, 26 years old and confessed perpetrator, who he carried and abandoned at the scene.
Fernando Peña is the main accused. And his alleged accomplices are his “partying” companions, cousins David Moreno Álvarez and Cristian Borja Moreno, aged 27 and 25. The jury finds Peña guilty of robbery with violence, three murders and damage from the fire, since he set fire to the house to try to cover his tracks. Moreno, guilty as an accomplice of robbery with violence, with the mitigating circumstance of confession, since he was the first to go to the Civil Guard and tell what happened. And Cristian, Laura’s partner at the time of the events and alleged facilitator of information about what his girlfriend’s parents had in their house, cooperator in robbery with violence, without mitigating circumstances.
The three belong to the so-called “Pioz mafia”, a town in Guadalajara with 5,200 inhabitants, 14 kilometers from Chiloeches. A kind of mob of young people agitated since adolescence by frenetic drug consumption and a love for martial arts. Peña, nicknamed The Redhead and grandson of a former mayor of the town, he served as the leader of the group with a long history of robberies, scams, driving without a license, disobedience, resistance… David, who lived with his grandparents, without a job or benefit and who had been treated for his drug addiction, was one of his usual companions in his misdeeds and altercations in exchange for drugs. And Cristian, although in theory he did not take drugs, and has a recognized disability of 61%, was “thorn and neck” with his cousin David, in addition to being the boyfriend of Laura, one of the three victims. The stories of their lives in the courtroom have highlighted this debauchery with drugs that they have tried to turn into their main alibi with the help of their lawyers but that in the end the jury, after listening to the experts, investigators and witnesses, has not considered.
The trial has been heard for sentencing.
