The perpetrator of a murder that shocked Uruguay has been sentenced to 26 years in prison

The perpetrator of a murder that shocked Uruguay in 2019 was sentenced this Friday to 26 years in prison, according to local media reported on Monday. The killer was convicted of the crime of “Homicide very particularly aggravated” because the purpose of the crime was to rob the victim.

The episode dates back to May 2019 and it happened in Ocean Park, a seaside resort in the department of Maldonado, between Piriapolis and Punta del Este, according to the Uruguayan newspaper The country.

On May 21, the victim, a retired teacher, was visited by another man, with whom she had a romantic relationship and with whom she planned to spend a few days in the coastal town. The next day, the two men went to Eastern Point and everything seemed to be going normally until dawn on the 23rd the murderer he beat the pensioner, suffocated him to death and burned his body.

Then, according to the court decision to which he accepted The country, murderer stole pensioner’s credit card, documents, television, stereo, and car from retiree. He left the dead victim in his own home and fled. Over the next two days, he used the man’s card to withdraw 90,000 Uruguayan pesos (approximately $ 2,000) and went to visit “his girlfriend”..

According to the court decision, theft was the motive for the murder. The murderer needed the money for “at least the 15th birthday” of his daughter. The reason, according to the decision, is “Directly linked to the appropriation of the property of others, including money, car and electronic equipment.”

The culprit was arrested on May 26, after boarding a bus to the city of Minas. On his cell phone, he found a conversation with his girlfriend. “I don’t think so, directly… and that’s it; if I think, my head is bursting “, confessed.

The same day, a friend of the pensioner who had reported his disappearance found him dead at his home. It was a man “Good, united and noble”, the woman remembered.

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