Interior is investigating why it failed the control of the prisoner who killed his girlfriend

The Interior Ministry is investigating whether there were any errors in the tracking device that had been in the prisoner's wrist that has killed at Pontevedra his current girlfriend and has wounding three other people taking advantage of a permanent prison, as explained by the government delegate for Gender Violence, Miguel Lorente.

"The data we have is that it seems that has not been triggered alarm system or warning" that bore the prisoner, said Lorente, who has indicated that information is a "very indirect" and that "the Ministry of Interior is investigating the facts to see what has happened. "

Addition to the possible failure in the monitoring system, is investigating the circumstances under which the prisoner, that December 19 had been released at the conclusion of his sentence, got a permit for four days, with the same characteristics to which had enjoyed in the past.

The prisoner was carrying a GPS device on his wrist programmed to activate an alarm at the time that is approaching the exclusion zone established in this case near the home of his ex-wife, of which has a restraining order after being convicted of threatening, sources of Corrections.

Members of the unit of electronic monitoring found, nothing but the incident occur, the GPS worked so now try to determine why it jumped the alert, according to the same sources.

However, having worked the alarm nor could have prevented the death of the prisoner's current girlfriend, and that was after her life when headed to the home of his ex-wife, who at that time was not in his home.

The deceased woman had never complained, and had even asked that it release, as explained Jose Antonio Gonzalez Novoa director of A Lama prison, where he met conviction the aggressor.

Prison sources have indicated, in this sense, that the murdered woman was talking last week with the prison director and claim that such a permit after he complained to him that he was trying to be your partner so hard that other prisoners by denying the third grade.

The prisoner, who was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison for threats to his ex-wife and was going to leave in the next release on December 19, in addition to killing his current partner, seriously wounding a married couple neighbor of his ex-wife, who had testified against him.

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Internal Lama traveled about 1700 hours on Saturday at the parish of Mourente in Pontevedra, where it was natural to the home of his ex-wife for revenge. Fortunately, the latter was not at his home and Maximino proceeded to the home of some neighbors, who had declared against him when he was tried for abuse, in order to retaliate. Then attacked the man and woman with a large knife.

Marriage is in the hospital Montecelo of Pontevedra, with a stable prognosis within gravity.

The incident alerted other residents to warn them immediately to the National Police. A patrol car arrived on the scene and when they went to arrest Maximino Couto, he was also assaulted one of the agents in the arm with the same weapon, but the police managed to dodge the blow. Once reduced, the inmate confessed, to the surprise of everyone, who had murdered his current companion in the house in which they lived, barely an hour before the assassination attempt multiple Mourente.

Members of the Guardia Civil went to the scene and found that Maximino said Maria del Rosario with a strong blow to the head which, according to all indications, he caused the death.

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Alecrn has described as "death foretold" the assassination. According explained the president of the association Ana Miguez, "the abusers people are not recoverable" by what he has called on prisons examine more thoroughly the possibility of granting permits to these prisoners.

Also recalled that Alecrn had already made a public complaint against the center of A penitential Lama, where he was serving a sentence of the alleged murderer, for granting permits to abusers without necessary safeguards. "What happens in prison A Lama," he questioned.

The Government in terms of gender violence, "should be inserted all the elements necessary to ensure and improve the security context, including the tracking devices of the aggressors, in addition to the technical issues" such systems.

The delegate has shown, from the Ministry of Gender, "the greatest sympathy with the family and the most absolute condemnation of this criminal conduct" and has extended its solidarity and desire for recovery to the neighbors who have suffered the consequences of direct violence.

"I welcome what did the neighbors, which is the right thing, we can not have fear because the attackers but are they that we are going to move the field of coexistence," says Lorente.