The family of Pedro Fernández, the victim, appeals the sentence and asks that the maximum provided for each of those involved be applied
The case of the crime of the Sabadell twins, which shocked the city in 2021, is back on the table. The family of Pedro Fernández, the man who was killed by his partner, Dolores Vázquez, and his accomplices, Pilar Vázquez and Isaac Gil, has filed an appeal against the sentence that sentenced them to 20, 16 and 17 years of prison respectively. The appeal asks that the sentence be increased to the legal limit, which is 25 years, for all of them.
The Prosecutor’s Office already requested high penalties, but the court lowered them
The Prosecutor’s Office considered that the three defendants acted with premeditation and treachery, and that they played an active role in the crime. For this reason, he asked for 24 years in prison for Isaac Gil, material author of the events, and for his partner, Pilar Vázquez; and 24 and a half years for Dolores Vázquez, for aggravated kinship. However, the court applied mitigating factors such as confession, reparation of damage and cooperation with justice, and handed down lower sentences: 17 years for Gil, 16 years for Pilar Vázquez and 20 years for Dolores Vazquez
The lawyer for the victim’s family argues that the three acted with cruelty and cold blood
This Tuesday the appeal hearing was held at the Court of Barcelona, where the lawyer for the family of Pedro Fernández defended that the three convicts acted with cruelty and cold blood, and that it cannot be applied no attenuator According to him, Dolores Vázquez was the instigator of the crime, which she planned with her friend Pilar Vázquez, and who commissioned Isaac Gil, who executed him with a knife. The lawyer has asked that the penalty be applied in the high section for all of them, and that the pain caused to the victim’s family be taken into account.
The lawyer of Dolores Vázquez alleges that her client was the victim of abuse by her partner
For her part, Dolores Vázquez’s lawyer has asked that her client be exonerated from all responsibility, since the woman suffered abuse from Pedro Fernández, and that this affected her ability to make decisions. The lawyer recalled that there are records of calls to 112 in which the woman asked for help, but then did not report it out of fear. The lawyers of Pilar Vázquez and Isaac Gil have corroborated the existence of the abuses, but these were not proven by a close friend of Pedro Fernández, nor by his ex-partner or his daughter.
The court of appeal of the TSJC must decide whether or not to accept the appeal of the victim’s family
After the hearing, the appeal room of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia must decide whether or not to accept the appeal of Pedro Fernández’s family, and whether or not to modify the sentence. The case of the crime of the Sabadell twins moved public opinion, as it was a brutal murder with no apparent motive, which ended the life of a man who had two 11-year-old twin daughters.
