The final handwriting tests in the investigation into the 2001 murder of Helena Jubany in Sabadell have ruled out that the main suspect, Santi Laiglesia, wrote any of the anonymous messages the victim received before she was killed. Previous expert analysis had already linked the messages to the other suspect in the case, Xavier Jiménez. One of these messages was accompanied by a juice containing benzodiazepines, the same substance detected in the victim's blood.

Three witnesses in the case investigating the murder of Helena Jubany in 2001 have reiterated their statements before the judge, which disprove the version with which the main suspect in the crime, Santi Laiglesia, has exonerated himself until now. The three had already testified in court in 2021During the period the case was open between July 2020 and March 2021, when it was again shelved. In fact, his appointments have been repeated to avoid the possibility that they might be considered invalid for having been made during this impasse, and they coincide with the day after Laiglesia filed an appeal, which ARA has accessed and with which He is trying to get out of the provisional jail, where he has been for 12 days.According to sources present at the deposition, the three witnesses reiterated their accounts, which contradict the suspect's version of events. One of the points they corroborated is that Laiglesia lived in the building where Jubany's body was found, after she was thrown from the roof into an interior courtyard, naked and with burns on different parts of her body. Laiglesia's then-partner, Montse Careta, lived in that apartment building. She was the first person arrested for the crime and committed suicide in Wad-Ras prison in 2002. Laiglesia has always maintained that he didn't live there, but only spent some nights there, and that he was there that night. However, on Wednesday, two witnesses explained the opposite. On one hand, a relative of the building's owner, who worked in administration and maintenance, explained to the judge that Careta had asked some time ago to add Laiglesia to the rental agreement. The change was ultimately not made, according to the witness, to avoid the paperwork. On the other hand, one of Montse Careta's sisters also corroborated that Laiglesia lived in the building. According to sources present at the deposition, the witness explained that she was very close to her sister and visited her frequently, to the point that she had a set of keys because she spent many nights at the apartment. This changed, the witness explained, months before the crime, when Laiglesia and Careta reconciled, because he stipulated that his sister not be in the apartment they shared so often.

With the main suspect in pretrial detention for just a week, the investigation into the 2001 murder of Helena Jubany has reached its final stages, and the prosecution is seeking to exhaust all options for gathering evidence before the case goes to trial. The judge in Sabadell presiding over the case has ordered, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, that the police conduct a handwriting analysis of Santi Laiglesia and compare it with the anonymous messages Jubany received before her death. Throughout the investigation, these anonymous messages have been the subject of expert and philological reports comparing the handwriting and language used with virtually all the individuals suspected of the crime. In fact, these tests had already linked the messages to the other person under investigation in the case, Xavier Jiménez. Until now, however, none of these tests had been carried out on Laiglesia, whom the family considers the prime suspect in Jubany's murder. Now, he will be transferred from prison to the courthouse so that handwriting experts from the National Police can take samples of his writing and conduct a comparative analysis. The investigating judge has also summoned four witnesses to court next Wednesday to repeat their statements. These four had already testified after the judicial investigation was reopened in July 2020 and before it was shelved again in March 2021. Since their testimonies were taken during this period of inactivity, the prosecution believes they could now be considered invalid and has asked the judge to order them to be repeated. Meanwhile, the Jubany family has asked the judge to summon two more witnesses to testify. These are the owner and an employee of the pharmacy where the benzodiazepines found in the victim's blood were allegedly purchased. These drugs, according to the investigating judge, left her in a "state of deep sleep or coma" before she was thrown from a rooftop. Their testimonies were scheduled for February 2021, but were never taken because the witnesses contracted coronavirus, and the case was subsequently closed.