A foreign resident of Almuñécar has just received a 6-year, prison sentence for a stabbing incident in April 2019. The victim was his wife.

After a heated argument, the condemned man, a Romanian, got up from his chair, went to the kitchen, picked up a knife with a 22.5cm blade and returned to where his partner was and grabbing her by the hair, he stabbed her several times in the neck.

Fortunately, the knife wounds were not deep and were in the nape so no artery was severed. She has since recovered from her injuries.

It was the provincial court in Granada (Audiencia Provincial de Granada) that found the man guilty of attempted murder with the attenuating circumstances of  having suffered an “altered mental state.” He also confessed at the scene of the crime, which also diminished his sentence.

Furthermore, he is forbidden from approaching within 300 metres of his victim, who had been his partner for 14 years, following release from prison during a period of nine years. He does not have to pay any compensation as the victim forewent claiming any.

Finally the mental state consideration was accepted because two weeks prior to the attack his behaviour had been “different, strange, and expressing incongruences some of which were mystic in nature.”

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)