A 52-year-old woman was murdered this Sunday in the Pontevedra town of Mos, allegedly by her ex-partner, a man whom the Civil Guard considers the main suspect and from whom she had separated, according to the mayor of this municipality, last December. The victim’s sister saw how the alleged murderer left the deceased’s home, located in the parish of Sanguiñeda and where María Belén’s body was found, sources from the investigation report. He fled in his car, but investigators found him dead after nine-thirty at night after hours of searching.
The Civil Guard received the notice at 1:35 p.m. It was the witness who saw the alleged murderer escape in a car who gave the alert. She lives on the upper floor of the house and realized that something was happening to her sister because “she heard noises and witnessed the escape” of the man she identified as her ex-partner, with whom she no longer had a relationship but who frequented the house, according to information provided by the Government’s subdelegate in Pontevedra, Abel Losada. Losada noted that at seven in the afternoon the man being sought and captured was “located” and that his arrest was expected to be “immediate.” He was later found dead by a Civil Guard team in the O Porriño home in which he had locked himself, according to investigation sources.
The woman’s body was found on the ground and had several stab wounds. The security forces were deployed in search of the suspect, since due to the location of the house where the murder was committed, at a point on the road that connects the town hall of Mos with that of O Porriño, the man had been able to escape in various directions, sources in the investigation point out. In the middle of the afternoon he was located in a house in O Porriño.
There were no previous complaints or records of the woman in the VioGén victim protection system, report sources close to the investigations, who also point out that no history of sexist violence of the alleged murderer has yet been found either.
The Mos City Council held a minute of silence this afternoon in front of the town hall. The act in memory of the murdered neighbor serves “as a show of condolence, solidarity and firm condemnation of all forms of violence, as well as support for the family and people close to the victim,” says the local government. Mos has declared three days of mourning and suspended all municipal activities during that time. This Monday at eight in the afternoon the corporation will attend an extraordinary plenary session and later there will be a protest rally. “We are broken,” says the mayor of Mos, Nidia Arévalo (PP).
If the case is officially confirmed as a sexist crime, the number of women murdered in 2026 would be six and the murders would rise to 1,348 since 2003, when this data began to be collected.
Telephone 016 assists victims of sexist violence, their families and those around them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but the call must be deleted from the device. You can also contact via email and by WhatsApp at the number 600 000 016. Minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) telephone numbers. And if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
