The 'man-killer' convicted to nearly 19 years for murder and fraud in Bilbao
The Provincial Court of Bizkaia has sentenced Nelson David M.G. to 18 years, 9 months and one day for murdering and defrauding a man in Bilbao in July 2021.
New firm conviction for man accused of killing five men in Bizkaia
The Provincial Court of Bizkaia has handed down a new conviction against Nelson David M.G., known as the 'man-killer': 18 years, 9 months and one day in prison for the murder and fraud committed against a man in Bilbao in July 2021. According to radiopopular.com, the sentence is firm and was handed down 'in voce' during a trial held this Friday behind closed doors, after an agreement was reached between the parties, ratified by the accused himself.
The court was scheduled to begin the trial with a jury on 21 September, but the agreement between the parties—private prosecution, public prosecution, defence and the Public Prosecutor's Office—rendered that proceeding null and void.
The facts of 27 July 2021
The sentence establishes that on 27 July 2021 the accused presented himself at the victim's home in Bilbao and ended his life. With the aim of obtaining economic benefit, he took possession of several of the deceased's bank cards, with which he made various payments in the following days. He also took other objects, including a mobile telephone and a watch, which he subsequently sold.
The Court of Bizkaia has convicted him as the perpetrator of the crime of murder committed to facilitate the commission of a further crime, in procedural concurrence with a crime of robbery with violence in an inhabited dwelling, to 17 years in prison. To that sentence is added one year, nine months and one day for the ongoing crime of fraud through fraudulent use of a card, with the aggravating factor of reoffending.
Compensation to the family
The court has also set the amounts for moral damages that the convicted man must pay to the victim's family: €50,000 to the mother, €15,000 to each of his five siblings and €3,000 to each of his two nephews. To these amounts are added the compensation corresponding to the sums obtained illicitly through fraud. All parties have waived their right to appeal the ruling.
Four murder convictions in total
With this new ruling, Nelson David M.G. now has four murder convictions—three completed and one attempted—of which three are already firm. The accused is attributed with the deaths of five men and two attempted murders; he typically contacted his victims through a dating application for homosexuals in order to rob them.
He is currently serving a sentence of 25 years and a half in prison for murdering with treachery, robbing and defrauding a man on 17 October 2021—a sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court in a ruling published on 8 June—and for the attempted murder of another victim on 17 December of the same year. He also has an imposed sentence of two years and three months for ongoing fraud, having disposed of more than €6,300 from the card of a man who had died. The Constitutional Court ordered the investigations related to that case to be reopened, which had previously been shelved by a Bilbao court as no signs of violence were found in the body.
Last August, the Court of Bizkaia also convicted him to 24 years in prison for murdering a 73-year-old man with whom he had arranged to meet through a dating application and for subsequently transferring €3,000 from the victim's mobile phone to his own bank account.
New trial pending in October
The defendant will face another trial between 19 and 27 October for a crime committed on 2 September 2021. The prosecutions argue that on that day he went to the victim's home after previously contacting him by telephone, with the intention of ending his life. Without it being possible to determine the manner or means employed, he caused him respiratory failure that led to his death.
While he remained in the dwelling with the man, and before the latter died, he accessed the mobile banking application without his consent through biometric identification and made a transfer of €1,300 to his own account. He also made three Bizum transfers of €500 each. After the victim's death, he took possession of his mobile telephone, reset it and sold it for €70 to an acquaintance, in addition to taking a bracelet belonging to the victim.
Source: Google News ES — Crime (es)