The Chillán Oral Criminal Court announced its verdict in the case of the intimate femicide of Carolina Fuentes Bustos, which was the conviction of the defendant Ricardo Neira Arriagada.
The Chillán TOP will announce its sentence on the 28th of this month. Meanwhile, prosecutor Álvaro Hermosilla requests the maximum penalty of qualified life imprisonment.
The accused has been in preventive detention in the Cauquenes prison since October 9, 2020, when he was formalized for this serious crime.
Yesterday Monday and after three weeks of hearings, the closing arguments were made in the TOP.
According to the investigation by the prosecution, on June 15, 2020, the victim traveled from Santiago to Ninhue, in the Ñuble Region, and was at the defendant’s home, in the neighboring community of Portezuelo, between June 25 and 30. of that month. This last day, the couple had an argument, boarded the defendant’s truck, and then Ricardo Neira suffocated his partner to death. After that, the woman’s body was found on October 5, 2020 in the Ñuble River, after three months missing.
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