The investigation into the Jubany case rules out Santi Laiglesia as the author of the anonymous messages.
The investigating judge has completed all pending tests before sending the case to trial.
BarcelonaThe last remaining pieces of evidence in the investigation into the 2001 murder of Helena Jubany in Sabadell have ruled out Santi Laiglesia, the prime suspect, as the author of the anonymous messages the victim received before she was killed. One of these messages was accompanied by juice containing benzodiazepines, the same substance detected in the victim's blood. The latest report from the National Police's scientific unit, submitted to the judge investigating the crime, compared the handwriting of these messages with that of Santi Laiglesia, the main suspect. He spent 41 days in pretrial detention for this case.In some of the texts they compared, the agents were unable to determine authorship. In others, they ruled out that he was the one who wrote them.
Other expert tests had already linked the messages to the other person under investigation in the case, Xavier Jiménez. The instructor commissioned these final tests using Laiglesia's handwriting. Just after sending him to pretrial detention at the end of November, where he remained until the beginning of January.
Once the results of these tests were received, the Sabadell court has now carried out all the tests it had planned in the investigation of the case. Now the judge has given all the parties involved five days to communicate whether they wish to request any further last-minute evidence. Once this is done, the proceedings will move forward to trial, and the next step will be for the prosecution to request the sentences they want imposed on the defendants.