An eighteen-year-old young man, arrested for the death of a 75-year-old woman in Segrià

The Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested an eighteen-year-old man this Monday in Soses (Segrià) because he is allegedly related to the murder of a 75-year-old woman. The victim was found dead on Saturday night in a cornfield in the same municipality in the province of Lleida. The police located the victim after receiving an alert the same night reporting the disappearance of a woman in that town.

According to sources consulted by ARA, the arrested person in the crime is a fruit farm worker in the area, and he is eighteen years old. The same sources indicate that the woman went to walk the dog in this area of fields, but she never returned. She had left around a quarter to eight in the evening and the dog ended up returning to the village alone. This alarmed the neighbors and the victim's family, who went out to look for her. They also alerted the police to her disappearance, and the alert arrived around 10:45 PM.

Finally, the officers found her an hour later, around 11:45 PM. The woman's body was in a cornfield next to the LP-7041 road coming from Aitona. Right from the first moment, the officers who located the body confirmed that it was a death with signs of violence. According to sources consulted by ARA, the woman was allegedly killed by having her throat cut with a glass bottle. For now, the motive for the crime is not entirely clear. In fact, a priori, the perpetrator and the victim did not know each other, according to the consulted sources.

Three days of mourning

On Sunday, the City Council announced the woman's death through the municipal loudspeakers spread throughout the town, and also convened a minute of silence on the same day at 12 noon. In addition, the council has decreed three days of official mourning for this death.

The case is under seal of proceedings and the police investigation is being handled by the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Mossos d'Esquadra.