The Office of the Prosecutor of the Principality of Asturias maintains that the man investigated for the violent death of his sister and of his sister’s partner in Oviedo, last May, would have ended the lives of both after publicly stating his intention to kill them.
As the Public Prosecutor’s Office has detailed, the examining section of the Oviedo Court of First Instance, court number 2, held on Friday a hearing in which the investigated party was informed of the charges brought by the various parties, applying what is provided for in article 25 of the Organic Law of the Jury Trial. Later, in the corresponding procedural phase, the Prosecutor’s Office will file its statement of accusation, in which it will specify the facts it considers proven and the penalties it will request.
According to the provisional account of the prosecutor, the events took place early in the morning, on 18 May 2026, in the home on Calle Vázquez de Mella in Oviedo where the accused, his sister, aged 58, and her partner, aged 55, lived. The man is said to have taken a 21-centimeter-blade knife and, once in the kitchen, delivered multiple stabbings to the man, after which he dragged his body to one of the bedrooms and hid it under the bed.
Then, always according to the Prosecutor’s version, he used the same weapon to attack his sister while she remained in bed, preventing her any possibility of defense and causing her death.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office highlights that the investigated party “attempted to deliberately and inhumanely increase the pain of the victims” and recalls that he had, for some time, maintained a conflictive relationship with his sister’s partner, which had already led to several police interventions at the home. In addition, the man had come to state publicly that “in the end, he would have to kill them.”
At the time of the events, the accused presented a partial impairment of his intellectual and volitional capacities due to cocaine use. He remains in provisional prison, with communication allowed and no bail, since 21 May, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, which qualifies what happened as two crimes of murder, under article 139.1. 1ª and 3ª of the Criminal Code.