The Indonesian Justice sentences the two murderers of the Spanish Matilde Muñoz to 18 years in prison

The session took place this Wednesday in the Mataram court (Lombok), where the trial began on December 17, and the sentence corresponds to the sentence that the prosecutor, Made Saptini, had requested at the beginning of the month.

The accused are one employee and one former employee Indonesians from the hotel where Muñoz was staying in Lombok.

Both admitted during the trial having entered to steal to the Spanish woman in the early hours of July 2 in her room at the establishment and having killed her after going into “shock” when she woke up.

The Prosecutor’s Office had accused them of homicide, premeditated murder and robbery with violence, crimes that can carry between 15 years in prison and the death penalty, although Indonesia does not usually apply it.

Smothered and beaten

The autopsy of Matilde Muñoz confirmed that the cause of death was asphyxiationin addition to presenting signs of blunt violence on the head, neck and chest.

The body was found buried on a beach in Dusun Locoin Senggigi, after the confession of two employees of the hotel where the victim was staying, identified as SU, 33 years old, and HR, alias G., 29 years old.

Los human remains were found in a prone positionstill wearing some of her clothes and jewelry, including two necklaces with snail pendants and a figure of Buddha.

The forensic examination determined that The body was already largely reduced to a skeleton.which required a detailed analysis to establish the causes of death.

A message, the key

The victim, native of Ferrol and resident in the Balearic Islandshad been last seen near the Bumi Aditya hotel, on Senggigi beach, where she had a 20-night stay reserved, as she explained at the time to Europa Press Ignacio Vilariño, spokesperson for the family.

days later, A message was sent from Matilde’s cell phone to a hotel employeewith serious spelling errors “unbecoming of her”, in which she warned that she had to travel to Laos, an event that never occurred and that the family considers an alibi on the part of the alleged murderers or their possible accomplices, who would be the true authors of sending that text.

It was from here when The family began to suspect and consider that Matilde could have been the victim of a crime..