Domestic violence fatalities grow

October 26, 2006  •  Uncategorized  •  0 Comments

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THE number of fatalities in
cases of domestic violence in
Spain this year continues to
grow after three women died
in as many days this month.
Fifty-eight women have so far
been killed in 2006 – four less
than last year’s total of 62.

In the most recent, an
Argentine man strangled his
partner, 29, after an argument
in the house they shared in
Jaén on October 12.

According to the police, 34-
year-old MJO contacted his
lawyer immediately after
killing REV, a primary school
teacher,

explaining what he
had just done.

Police went to the house in the
Puerta Tablas area of the city
and found the body of the victim
lying in a bedroom.

Neighbours said they regularly
heard the couple arguing.
Meanwhile, police in
Castellón on the east coast of
Spain have confirmed a 29-
year-old man who shot dead
his wife before turning the gun
on himself was receiving treatment
for depression.

The husband’s mother found
the two bodies in the house in
which they lived in Cabanes
after worried colleagues of the
man had called her after he
had not shown up for work on
October 10.

The couple had only been
married for six months.
A day earlier in Gerona in
Cataluña, a man sprayed his
three-month pregnant wife
with petrol before setting her
alight.

Thirty-year-old SSVR, was
taken to the Valle Hebrón hospital
in Barcelona with 97 per
cent burns to her body. She
died a day later.

Her husband, 32-year-old
MSB, is fighting for his life in
the intensive care unit of the
same hospital after setting
himself alight and jumping
from the balcony of the first
floor flat they shared in the
Calonge area of the city.

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