Eloise HorsfieldTHE youth who murdered a 13-year-old Arriate girl has been sentenced to eight years in prison plus five years on parole.
The sentence, handed down at at Malaga’s Juvenile Court, is the maximum possible for a minor.
Seventeen-year-old Ruben V.R. was also ordered to pay the family of Maria Esther Jimenez Villegas the sum of 222,000 euros.
Maria Esther’s body was found in a swimming pool pump house in Arriate near Ronda on January 20 this year.
She had been murdered with a rock the size of a small melon.
The trial heard 40 witnesses but the most incriminating evidence was the presence of Ruben V.R.’s DNA on the rock.
Eight years for murder!! this is crazy. Let´s hope that the conservative goverment changes this law soon and give criminals life sentences whether they are young or not:
Why such as small term?
This is just a slap on the wrist!! Disgraceful
For god’s sake, the ”boy” was 17 years old, old enough to be tried as an adult, Sources close to the investigation have revealed it was a violent death with the face of the teenager barely recognizable, thrown into a pool, with a plastic bag over her head? This was an awful,brutal,vicious death. Anyone who could do such a thing should not be out around humans. He should be sentenced to death, much less just 8 years.