Handwriting tests rule out that Santi Laiglesia wrote the anonymous letters on Helena Jubany's account.

BarcelonaThe 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.

The latest report submitted by the National Police's scientific unit to the judge investigating the crime compared the handwriting of these messages with that of Santi Laiglesia, the main suspect in the murder. 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. 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. The Jubany family has already announced that they will not. Once they respond to the other parties and the final steps are taken, if necessary, the proceedings will move forward to trial, and the next step will be for the prosecution to request what sentences they want imposed on the defendants.

Meanwhile, the investigating judge has rejected the request ofAna Echaguibel, who was also investigated for the crimeThe judge is maintaining the provisional dismissal to reserve the possibility of reopening the investigation if new evidence pointing to her emerges in the future.

"Solid evidence" against Laiglesia

Aside from the evidence regarding the authorship of the messages, the investigating judge believes there is "solid evidence" incriminating Laiglesia. In fact, he had been investigated for the crime until 2005, when the case against him was dismissed due to lack of evidence. Now he is being prosecuted again after DNA analysis linked him to the genetic material Jubany was carrying when he was killed.

Jubany was 27 years old when she was thrown from the rooftop into an interior courtyard in Sabadell, naked, semi-conscious, and with burns on her body. Montse Careta, the first person arrested for the crime, lived in that building; she committed suicide in prison in 2002. Careta and Laiglesia were a couple, and he has always maintained that he did not live there, but only spent some nights there. But some witnesses contradict him..