The Burgos National Police Station has reported that the autopsy performed on the 20-year-old girl found dead in Burgos determines, according to forensic criteria, that the cause of death is “compatible with suicide by hanging.”
It has also determined that this woman had injuries prior to death, but that in no case are they the cause of death. For this reason and, based on these previous injuries, the victim’s partner will continue to be detained as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of gender violence, but they are no longer accused of homicide.
The Government delegate in Castilla y León, Virginia Barcones, explained that when the young woman presented these injuries prior to her death, her partner is kept in custody and accused of a crime of gender violence, but no longer accused of her death.
The event occurred on Saturday afternoon at a home on Avenida del Cid in the capital of Burgos, when members of the National Police appeared at the scene after receiving two consecutive calls at 112, around half past three in the afternoon. one for the woman and one for the man.
According to the police account, the young woman called to report that she was having problems with her partner and, later, it was the detainee himself who called the emergency phone to request the police presence, alleging that the woman was very nervous and had locked herself up. in a room with a knife.
Once the agents arrived at the scene, the woman was already dead and her partner claimed that she had hanged herself and that he had taken the body down.
After taking the first testimonies from the neighbors and based on the evidence collected, the Police arrested this man as the alleged perpetrator of the death; However, now after the autopsy, homicide is ruled out.
As the Police have reported, the detainee had a history of gender violence against his former partner. And the deceased, according to police notes, had been the victim of previous couples, but there was no complaint of gender violence between them.
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