By Cathy Elelman • Published: 19 Feb 2020 • 13:05
The case was won! CREDIT: Shutterstock
THE Balearic Island Supreme Court has cut the sentence for the young man doing time for killing his stepfather and for stabbing and seriously injuring his mother his mother in Calvia. The court took into consideration the extenuating circumstance of Bodgan K’s confession and ruled to reduce the number of years behind bars from 37.5 to 35. He called the 112 emergency number after the crime to report there were two bodies in his home following a family argument. In addition, his cooperative attitude towards the police contributed to establishing the facts and who was responsible. The case dates back to the night of January 11 2018. The then 27-year old was found guilty in a trial by jury of attacking his stepfather and his mother with a bayonet and a kitchen knife after a fallout in the family home in Costa d’en Blanes.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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