Overview
- The Audiencia Provincial de Madrid issued the sentence Monday after a jury found captain Antonio P. C. guilty of killing his wife by strangulation at their Puente de Vallecas home on 25 November 2023.
- The criminal term totals 11.5 years plus six months for psychological injuries to a child, and the court applied the 'eximente incompleta' partial mental-disorder mitigation together with reductions for confession and repair.
- Judges also imposed a 13-year ban on approaching or communicating with the children, deprivation of parental authority for 13 years, up to ten years of supervised release after prison and civil indemnities totaling €500,000.
- Court records say one daughter, now three, witnessed the attack and has suffered serious psychological harm, and both children now live with their maternal grandparents.
- Prosecutors had sought roughly 25–27 years by arguing kinship and gender aggravating factors, but the jury rejected those aggravations, a decision that highlights tensions between mental-health defences and how courts treat gendered domestic violence claims.