Arganda del Rey Orders Court No. 9 has agreed to keep actor Luis Lorenzo and his partner Arantxa Palomino at large as investigations into allegedly ending the life of María Isabel Suárez Arias, Palomino’s aunt, begin, according to legal sources. The charge, brought by a brother of the deceased, had called for the couple to be detained, while the prosecutor had demanded that they remain free and with the precautions of going to court regularly and a ban on leaving Spain, like today stated The judge.
The judge’s decision comes almost a year after the woman’s death, which took place on June 28, 2021 at the home of the couple under investigation in Rivas Vaciamadrid (Madrid), in the presence of their caregiver and their two young children, aged nine and eleven years old. After the old woman’s death, the couple transported the body to Asturias for burial without notifying relatives, who – despite repeated calls – had not been able to communicate with “Aunt Isabel” for three months. At that point, José María Suárez, brother of the deceased, who had lodged a complaint with the Guardia Civil about her “disappearance” after she had left for Madrid with her niece, requested an autopsy, suspecting that “it was not a natural death. “.
At a hearing held this Friday, prosecutors requested that the suspects be released provisionally, with the precautions already in place, confiscation of passports and weekly court appearances. However, prosecutors welcome evidence that the death could have resulted from homicide.
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The autopsy, key to this investigation, found the 85-year-old woman died of “poisoning” with “homicidal etiology” with levels of cadmium and manganese found in her blood 200 and 20 times higher, respectively as normal. However, coroners advise that these readings may have been caused by a postmortem biochemical reaction, and they believe the death may have been caused by “inadequate or negligent administration of other medications” that the woman was taking. The judge released the defendants on provisional parole after declaring them both innocent.
The lawyer for the deceased’s Asturian family requested the couple’s provisional release and estimated that the judge had taken this measure in a court hearing on June 3, to which he was not summoned despite exercising private prosecution. Although they were both released, the judge ordered them to have their passports revoked and to appear in court weekly, as requested by prosecutors.
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The statement by the caregiver last Wednesday, who alone attended the death of the old woman when the couple were outside the house that morning, confirmed the three months of horror and decay that Isabel Suárez Arias endured before her death.
Luis Lorenzo and Arancha Palomino arriving at the court. Antonio Gutierrez (Europa Press)
He testified as a witness and told the judge about the “deterioration” suffered by María Isabel Suárez after her arrival in Madrid, when she went from independence to an inability to move in bed. “She reported on the deterioration of a woman going from good condition to an inability to take care of herself,” one of the prosecutor’s attorneys, Luis Tuero, told the media, explaining the nurse’s testimony to help the one cared for the deceased.
“We have a lady who was in Asturias on March 2nd, she was self-employed, she was cooking, working in the garden… and a few months later she had a psychological situation that she was not aware of,” said the lawyer , who assured that this was not the case, was not asked about cadmium or manganese, which were found in the body of the deceased during the second autopsy, which revealed that she had blood levels of these substances 200 and 20 times higher than normal, respectively. “Both substances were in the body and that is not debatable or debatable. If the coroner explains it, she will explain everything,” he said.
On the other hand, the Court of Inquiry No. 5 of Avilés decided this Wednesday on the return of custody of Arancha Palomino’s son to his ex-partner. The court held a hearing on Wednesday at which the child’s father and Arancha’s ex-partner asked that the 11-year-old minor not return to his mother out of “great fear” of the minor’s “mental destruction,” the justified progenitor. The minor, picked up by his mother, had been left with his father following the arrests of Arancha and Luis Lorenzo last month.