“We are poor but proud – we don’t want pity; we want justice,” explained Encarnación Armenteros Vacas. What she is referring to is the plight of her semi-deaf, 74-year-old mother. Read on.

This is truly a cruel twist to an already tragic lose: this elderly lady in Jaén is legally responsible for the outstanding debts of her dead daughter, Purificación, allegedly murdered at the hands of her own husband on the 22nd of March 2011.

The elderly mother, Juana, as the inheritor of her daughter’s estate, took on the debts accrued by the daughter and son-in-law, who confessed to the crime, by the way. The mother’s only possession is the house where she raised her children in Torredelcampo and she is in danger of losing it, if the judge does not annul her unwitting acceptance of the debt.

In other words, such is the bitter irony of it all that thanks to the debts of the self-confessed murderer of her daughter, she could lose the roof over her head.

“They didn’t inform my mother that if she accepted the inheritance, she would also be inheriting the debts,” explained the surviving daughter, Encarnación.

In the divorce settlement in 2010, the magistrate found that the mortgage repayment would be the sole responsibility of the husband, but their joint fiscal union had to be dissolved first. The daughter was on the point of doing this when she was murdered. The end result was that in 2011 the mother received notification from the bank that as the mortgage on the couple’s home wasn’t being paid, the mother was responsible for 50% of the inheritance meaning that her house would be embargoed and sold to pay her part of the debt. Don’t you just love the banks?

So, now you know what Encarnación stated, ” We don’t want pity; we want justice.”

(News: Jaen, Andalucia)