Córdoba
The main accused of the crime of Juan Carlos Rodríguez, the victim of the crime of La Chica Carlota, Pedro Gómez, has today denied having killed the victim.
The accused, who was wanted and arrested for a previous crime, has said that he did not kill him, that he had started a very intense relationship with the victim and that using his vehicle and taking money from his credit cards, they traveled to Córdoba, to La Solana where the defendant’s family lived and Madrid with some friends until the victim disappeared. He says that his intention was to leave Spain.
That is the version that he has given before Judge Pedro Gómez, whom the prosecution accuses of murdering Juan Carlos Rodriguez in September 2017. All in order to seize his money.
Until January 2018, the date on which he was arrested supplanting the identity of the victim, with his documentation and his car, the defendant had used Juan Carlos Rodríguez’s credit card on 43 occasions, and had arrived, using his identity , to request a loan of 30,000 in an online bank.
The detainee acknowledges that when he had requisitions with the justice, he used disposable mobile phones to avoid geolocation… And that he wore priest’s clothing: a collar and a priest’s alb, because it was the best way to avoid suspicion and go unnoticed when he traveled anywhere. .
Previously, the Madrid lawyer who is accused of fraud, and whom the family considers the necessary collaborator for the crime, has declared, since he put the victim in contact with the aggressor, knowing the criminal record of the aggressor and the disease victim’s mind.
His lawyer has requested free acquittal, defending that it is one thing not to be accused of fraud and another to be designated as a necessary cooperator.
During today’s session, 23 people are expected to testify, including the victim’s brothers.
The magistrate who presides over the room can order, depending on time needs, that the statements continue in the afternoon so that the procedure ends in a timely manner, so that there is a jury verdict before next June 26, the date on which The maximum four years of provisional prison for the defendant are fulfilled and in which if there is no jury verdict, he would have to be released.
The victim was found in September 2018 buried in the patio of his own home, a year after the family reported his disappearance.