Overview
- Judge Raquel Nieto signed an order last week authorizing the first ten witnesses to be summoned to testify, including the family therapist, a Mango secretary, the victim’s daughters, the company CEO and cybersecurity head, the founder’s then-partner, two mountain-unit Mossos officers, and a hiker who assisted Jonathan Andic.
- The court ordered technical digital measures to clarify messaging and device activity, asking Mossos for a report on WhatsApp running on computers, Mango for a device registry covering 2020–2025, and a rogatory commission to Apple for iPhone, cloud and location data tied to the days of the death and a reported phone theft in Quito.
- Mossos’ scientific police will carry out a site reconstruction of the fall with the two forensic doctors who performed the autopsy, and the judge has requested the victim’s full medical and pharmaceutical records from public health services and his private insurer for comparative analysis of injuries.
- The measures directly respond to the defense’s alternative reconstruction and expert reports, which say the injuries fit an accidental ‘tobogán’ trip-and-slide, and to a private detective’s call records that claim Jonathan’s phone showed activity in Ecuador.
- Dates for the court testimony and the reconstruction have not been set, the planned repeat of earlier Mossos statements will now occur under judicial supervision with prosecutors and defence present, and the Apple rogatory could face practical delays that will affect how quickly the evidence is reviewed.