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Expat sentenced to 18 years in Alicante for murdering his partner
The woman’s mutilated body was discovered in a bin in the Moraira town of Alicante
The Supreme Court has upheld an 18-year prison sentence handed down to a Dutch ex-marine who was convicted of slitting the throat of his partner, a 34-year-old originally from Romania, in Alicante on February 16, 2020.
The gruesome attack came about when the then 59-year-old expat and his partner were on a pub crawl in the town of Moraira and the couple ended up arguing when he accused her of kissing another man.
The court heard that the pair left the last bar together and walked to the suspect’s estate agency, where he stabbed her in the back with a 15-centimetre knife as she was heading for the bathroom.
The ex-marine repeatedly stabbed his victim as she turned back towards him, inflicting injuries on her chest, thighs and arms, before finally slitting her throat.
Altogether, the victim was slashed 16 times in what the judge believed was a deliberate act of murder.
A short time later, the woman’s body was found by investigators dumped in a rubbish bin on Calle Móstoles and the Dutch man handed himself in to the Guardia Civil and made a full confession.
The original jail term of 22 years has since been reduce, but an appeal by the defendant based on the “humiliation” he suffered due to his partner’s alleged cheating was roundly rejected by the Alicante jury.
The court also heard that the victim had a young child and had previously reported her attacker for gender violence, although the restraining order against him had expired at the time of the murder.
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