The Segovia Provincial Court has sentenced a man to seven and a half years in prison for trying to kill a judge from Santa María la Real de Nieva (Segovia, 1,000 inhabitants) with a screwdriver. The parties have come to an agreement and the author, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, accepts the penalty for attempted crime and attempts against authority. The accused, a farmer from a nearby town, had received an unfavorable sentence the day before and went to court in December 2020, where he repeatedly stabbed judge María Sonsoles Sanchidrián Velayos, who spent nine days in a hospital.
The Segovian, with the initials ARS, has admitted what happened and must comply with a restraining order one kilometer away from the woman for eight and a half years, five and a half years of supervised release if he leaves prison and compensate the victim 94,170 euros: 40,000 for moral damage, 30,000 for the consequences and 24,170 for the physical damage caused. The judge’s defense had asked for 15 years in prison and the prosecution 12, although the agreement that was reached removes the total time the man, who has been in provisional custody since the attack, has to spend seven and a half years behind bars.
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The attack on the authority occurred around 2 p.m. on December 1, 2020, when the attacker addressed the judge who was in her vehicle, which was snowing at the door of Santa María la Real de Es, 30 kilometers from the city of Segovia removed, was parked. There they talked for a few moments after he asked her if she was Sonsoles Velayos, who the previous day had sentenced him to pay around 1,000 euros in legal costs for a case initiated by this person in relation to a piece of land used for growing fruit and vegetables had , which ended in his against.
The man attacked her with the screwdriver and stuck it in her eye and chest before the victim managed to escape and took refuge in the judicial offices after being pursued by ARS and hospital.
Sanchidrián’s lawyer Aquilino Conde considered the parties’ agreement after the hearing to be “relatively prudent and good for everyone”. “She wasn’t for the job being hateful and wanted to rebuild her life and that’s why this solution was there,” stressed the attorney, adding that the defendant had been diagnosed with a personality disorder but apparently hadn’t after appropriate treatment and that this could lead to the offense for which he was convicted.
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The judiciary of Castilla y León and other parts of Spain, especially in rural or small areas, requested more security measures around these courts after this event to make this type of violence more difficult.