The Justice of San Pedro de Jujuy sentenced Julio Carlos Andrés Flores to life imprisonment for the commission of the crime of “homicide aggravated by the relationship, with treachery, and by mediating gender violence -aggravating circumstance that assigns the criminal figure the category of femicide-«, according to the provisions of article 80, paragraphs 1, 2 and 11, of the Penal Code.
The victim, whose lifeless body was found abandoned in an irrigation canal, was Yamila Villanueva, ex-partner of the ferocious murderer.
The sentence that bears the signature of the Gender Violence judge of San Pedro de Jujuy, Liliana Pellegrinimarks the end of the abbreviated trial – contemplated in article 411 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Province of Jujuy – of this first instance in which they participated as secretary Maria Florence Baiud; representing the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Augusto Baiud Luraschi; in the technical defense of the convicted person, Augusto Ezequiel Elgoyhen; and in the complaint of the Provincial Women’s Council and on behalf of the victim’s sister, Leonardo Fernandez and Miriam Soledad Valdezrespectively.
In the ruling, the Judge Pellegrini arranged the immediate transfer of the femicide to the Provincial Penitentiary Servicewhere he will be housed to serve the sentence of life imprisonment.
A DEATH WITH A PRECEDENT
The femicide for which he was sentenced Julio Carlos Andrés Flores occurred between December 27 and 29, 2023in an undetermined place and time, in circumstances in which the convicted He was with his ex-partner, Yamila Villanuevawho days ago had ended the romantic relationship due to violent behavior of the convicted person.
According to the research, the woman’s death occurred due to critical injuries caused by a blunt element with a sharp edge in areas of the neck and headinflicted by the femicide in a “sudden, unexpected and devious” manner, which They incapacitated any defensive reaction of the victim and finally caused death.
The body of Yamila Villanueva was found in the early morning of December 29 in an irrigation canal in the vicinity of Lote El Lugar – La Esperanza locality, San Pedro de Jujuy department -, within the framework of a police search operation following a complaint made by his sister on December 28 in Section No. 25 of La Esperanza (a 47 kilometers from the provincial capital).
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