The men accused of murdering 72-year-old businessman in Calahonda in 2019 have just been tried and found guilty in a trial before a jury.

The judge has yet to decide on the sentence, although the Public Prosecutor recommended 27 years’ imprisonment for the man who stabbed the victim to death and 10 years’ imprisonment for his accomplice.

Both men were also found guilty of armed burglary with violence against the dwellers.

The aggressor claims that he cannot recall what happened after the victim attacked him with a table lamp. He said that he had lost consciousness owing to post-traumatic stress. He said that when he came round the victim was already dead.

The accomplice said that he arrived in the room where the assault took place in time to see the other man standing over the body with his arm raised holding a knife.

The robbers had entered pretending to be agents from the Spanish Intelligence Agency (CNI). They had previously met in a municipal homeless shelter where the accomplice had agreed to accompany the aggressor to Calahonda to get 5,000 euros owed to him by the victim.

It also appears that the aggressor had shared a relationship with the victim’s ex-wife and therefore had knowledge of the dead man’s financial situation.

Lastly, the aggressor said he didn’t know at the time that he had killed the victim, who received 39 stab wounds… but claimed that he would not have carried out the killing in such a manner as “he had received military training since he was 14 and would not have carried it out in such a botched manner.”

Readers can find out more about the murder from the articles that we published at the time here and here.

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