Trial for murder of gay couple closes in Spain with 58 year sentence

  

The author confessed to the killing of two young gays on the streets of Vigo Oporto in 2006, Jacobo Pineiro Rial, was sentenced to 58 years in prison, 20 for each of the two murders and 18 by an arson, the of bodies and the house where he committed the crime. Thus recorded in the decision of the Fifth Section of the Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra.

The decision also requires Jacobo Pineiro 400,000 euros to compensate the mother of Isaac, one of the victims and to pay over 9,000 euros to the insurance company Santa Lucia.

The condemned struck 57 stab wounds to both victims and then set fire to points around the house where the events occurred. Furthermore, the opinion of the judge finds that the defendant killed his two victims "with cruelty, deliberately and inhumanly increasing the pain of the victim."

After the murder of two young men, in July 2006, Jacobo Pineiro Rial confessed authorship in 2009 but was acquitted by a jury of the crimes of murder, saying he acted in self defense, so that only convicted him the fire. The High Court subsequently ruled Galicia Xustiza of holding a new trial and jury found him guilty.