During the hearing for his appeal against the sentence that last June sentenced him to 15 years in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Heidi Paz, César Román, the King of Cachopo, assured that he loved studying Law in prison.
He will be able to continue doing so, because the magistrates of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) have ratified the ruling this Friday and have rejected that during the investigation and the oral hearing of the trial the rights of the convicted person were violated, as alleged by his defense.
The woman's torso was found in August 2018 in a suitcase in a ship that the condemned man had rented in Madrid.
The coroners testified at trial that she had cuts to make it difficult to identify her.
A few months later, the Police found him in Zaragoza, where she had been hiding.
Roman had gotten a job in a bar in the city, had lost considerable weight and had grown a beard.
"I was waiting for you," he snapped at the agents when they arrested him.
He thus closed a new chapter of his life, one of many.
His biography is written between reality and the exaggerations that Román tells anyone who listens to him in an exhausting and hypnotizing speech in equal parts.
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Three years later, with a pandemic in between, the moment for which he had prepared in prison arrived: his trial.
In a staging that he had imagined for all that time, the now condemned man spoke for hours, both in his statement and in his last turn to speak.
He broke down each of the points of the investigation in detail and justified his innocence with stories of corrupt policemen who had threatened him with a gun, the alleged relationship of the victim with violent gangs and even the doubt that those remains really belonged to Heidi Paz.
None of this was worth it and a popular court found the evidence presented by the Prosecutor's Office and the private accusations sufficient to incriminate Román.
Something that the TSJM has corroborated: “César killed Heidi, amputated her corpse [cutting off her head, arms and legs] and tried to destroy it by chemical dissolution and fire.”
The ruling does not observe any violation of his rights, his actions such as the inspection of the apartment in which Román lived with the victim at that time in Vallecas.
“It was carried out with the aim of finding and intervening in any effect of interest for the investigation, whether it was the limbs or the head that completed the human torso, the discovery of which gave rise to the opening of the case,” the magistrates recall.
The judges also wonder why if César Román “had nothing to do with this matter, he fled to Zaragoza and hid from the Police and from the action of justice.
And why he was in possession of the mobile phone that the victim had last used the last night he was seen alive.”
There is still an appeal against this ruling before the Supreme Court.
It is foreseeable that El Rey del Cachopo has not yet said the last word about him.
But almost.
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