The Superior Court of Madrid asks for the review of the ritual murderer’s conviction, who killed his boyfriend altered by drug | News from Madrid
Gustavo Ocampo killed his partner, Pedro G., in a cruel way in April 2022 on the floor that shared the Madrid district of Puente de Vallecas. Inflicted up to 71 wounds With different utensils, including several screwdrivers. He received a sentence of six years in prison for the homicide. The case He was baptized as crime of the ritualalthough the sentence condemned Gustavo in November 2024 did not contemplate the divine intervention, but the psychic alteration of the accused by drug use. Now, a new ruling by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) orders the Provincial Court to motivate with more arguments the reduction of penalty for this homicide due to this exempt by psychotic disorder.
When the police arrived on the floor that morning, the murdere protected For an image of Jesus Christ with two crossed sticks. With that same poster he had recorded a video that uploaded to his social networks in which she apologized minutes before ending her boyfriend’s life. In that same scenario in which a corridor was seen, clothes lying on the floor and some esoteric books, the police then found the victim’s body, lying in the room. The judicial ruling points out that the attack could last « at least 15 minutes. »
Several police records stunned that men had maintained a relationship with previous fights and so corroborated by the victim’s family. It was also proven that the defendant was a regular consumer of methamphetamine and that this drug was present in his body on the day of the crime.
Due to this chemical alteration caused by the consumption of narcotics, an incomplete exempt was applied that reduced his prison sentence at age six, compared to the 14 he could have received, according to the request of the private accusation, which represented the victim’s daughter.
According to the defendant’s storythat morning they began a verbal discussion in which Gustavo, which was then 34, assured him that he left home. After the accused would recriminate him that he always rode him “the show“And he threatened him, Pedro, 52, went to sleep and told him to leave the keys at the entrance.“ I had coffee and began to feel bad. From there I don’t remember anything, ”he said.
The jury considered that the powers of Ocampo were severely undermined, but not completely annulled, which motivated the application of an incomplete exemption by psychic alteration. The TSJM has ratified this interpretation, noting that the assessment of the jury was « consistent, reasoned and sufficiently motivated » based on the testimony and expert reports. However, this new ruling asks the Provincial Court to justify the reasons why Gustavo’s penalty under two grades, instead of one.
