The Supreme Court confirms the sentence of a man to 20 years in prison for the beating of the tenant of his farm in Zafra (Badajoz)

The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court has confirmed the sentence to 20 years in prison for the crime of murder, with the aggravating circumstances of treachery and cruelty, of a man who killed the tenant of his farm in Zafra (Badajoz), at the that he dealt 40 blows with an iron bar, 20 of them to the head, while she begged for her life. The court appreciates the aggravating circumstances of treachery for carrying out the action through a sudden and teaching attack because he repeatedly hit the victim with a powerful iron instrument in different parts of the body before he died, despite his laments and complaints. The Chamber dismisses the appeal filed by the convicted person against the judgment of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura that confi…