A
Uruguayan Court of Appeals
decided this Monday to sentence
the accused of
covering up
the crime of
Lola Chomnalez, the teenager murdered in December 2014 on the beach of Barra de Valizas, to
eight years in prison
.
This is
Ángel Eduardo Moreira Martínez, alias "El Cachila",
who had been acquitted in June of last year for lack of evidence and, consequently, was
immediately
released .
In addition, his psychiatric expert report had shown that he "had a tendency to mythomania", so the judge ruled that the person who worked as a car attendant "did not know about the murder, nor did he help, collaborate, contribute or facilitate its author".
When he was released, his first words had been: "I declared anything because I was high, I had smoked base paste."
Ángel Moreira, alias "Cachila", was accused of concealment.
About his traumatic experience in jail, he stated: "I spent two months lying in a dungeon, I slept in a black garbage bag."
And he maintained that he was almost killed among seven prisoners in a cell, that he suffered from tuberculosis and that he was on IV for a week, in addition to suffering from kidney problems: "I had a bad time, they almost killed me, but hey, I took her."
Although after his release the man
returned to prison for violating an
approach restriction requested by an ex-partner, the judges now
unanimously resolved to revoke the acquittal
and sentence him back to prison for the case of the Argentine girl murdered on Uruguayan beaches.
He does so as
"the author responsible for a cover-up crime"
, according to judicial sources.
"El Cachila" had been arrested at the beginning of the investigation as a suspect for having committed the crime, but was later released since the comparison of his DNA with the genetic material found in the victim's objects was negative.
In 2019, the Uruguayan Justice charged him again and arrested him as an accessory after the fact that he "was present before, during and after the murder" of the adolescent.
Since then, the experts of the Scientific Police continued with the DNA comparisons with each of the new ones admitted to the prison system for other reasons and thus they reached the
relative of the now accused of being the perpetrator of the crime, Leonardo David Sena, 29 years old.
.
Transfer of Leonardo David Sena, arrested for the crime of Lola Chomnalez.
Photo: Rochaaldía
The case of Lola Chomnalez
Lola (14) had traveled to Barra de Valizas, Uruguay, on Saturday, December 27, 2014, and stayed at the house of her godmother, Claudia Fernández, who was with her husband, Hernán Tuzinkevcih, and his son.
The following day, the teenager disappeared when she went for a walk on the beach and two days later she was found murdered about four kilometers from the house, in an area of dunes.
Adriana Belmonte and Diego Chomnalez, Lola's parents, ask for justice for their daughter.
Through the autopsy it was determined that Lola died of suffocation and that she had several cuts made with a knife in different parts of her body.
For the prosecution, the teenager tried to run away from her murderers, was hit, wounded with a knife and hit on the head to finally die of suffocation when, due to her probable calls for help, they pressed her face against the sand.
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