Overview
- The trial, which opened Thursday before Judge Carmen Gema González in Córdoba, centers on charges of negligent homicide and denial of care with the Fiscalía seeking four years in prison and seven years of disqualification.
- The accused, Carmen Prada, testified that the patient did not intend to kill himself and said he died from a heart condition worsened by pulmonary edema and an adverse reaction to antidepressants.
- The family, acting as a private prosecution, argues she ignored repeated warnings and asks for up to eight years for two involuntary homicides, citing earlier suicide threats and violent episodes.
- A forensic examiner had advised involuntary hospitalization because the patient lacked insight into his illness and stopped taking prescribed medication, a step the prosecution says could have prevented the death in 2020.
- The court scheduled three sessions ending next Tuesday, with expert witnesses due next week, in a case that professional societies call unprecedented in Spain and that includes the regional health service, the Córdoba medical college, and two insurers on the defense side.