On Saturday afternoon, a police patrol detained the alleged killer of the 22 year old Dominican woman who was found stabbed at her home in Fuenlabrada but who died in hospital one hour later.
At around 15:30 on Saturday afternoon, a police patrol near the police station in Fuenlabrada noticed a man walking towards them and, recognising him from a photo issued to all officers in the area, they made an arrest.
The detainee, Bolivian national Carlos Leonel P.C.P, later stated that he was on his way to surrender to the police at the time of his arrest.
The killing took place in calle Móstoles, Fuenlabrada, on Saturday morning. Police received a call from a woman who told them: ‘I’m dying’. Local Police officers arrived on the scene within minutes and she was transferred to hospital. Although, at first, it did not seem that her injuries were very serious, the woman died just one hour later at the Hospital de Fuenlabrada.
The man and woman were actually married, although the current status of their relationship is not known. A restraining order against the husband had been issued in 2007 but was lifted about five months later by order of the Criminal Court in Móstoles.
In 1999, Fuenlabrada launched a programme to counter gender violence and this is the first fatality to be recorded in the municipality since that time.