Justice accuses him of “homicide qualified by treachery” due to his contradictory testimonies. The truck driver’s defense assured that he will request a substitute measure in the coming days.
The trucker Hector Romero (71), investigated for the disappearance of María Cash, he was sentenced to house arrest due to his serious state of health, according to the Salta Justice.
Romero was arrested last week, when he was transferred by the Gendarmerie to the headquarters of the Federal Police. The man had been a key witness, but after several investigative tests, he changed his role in the case that would link him to the crime of the young designer who disappeared in July 2011.
Héctor Romero was sentenced to house arrest
Justice accuses him of “homicide qualified by treachery”based on contradictions in their testimoniesanalysis of communications and other material evidence. The case was taken forward by the judge Mariela Gimenezafter a hearing.
Romero’s lawyer, Dr. Fernando Díaz, requested house arrest, praising his client’s advanced age and his health complications. The lawyer assured that his client is innocent and announced that he will request a substitute measure in the coming dayshighlighting alleged inconsistencies in the versions involving him.
Hector Romero arrested Maria Cash
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Finally, it was ruled Romero as guilty due to his various stories on several occasions. At first, he stated that he left María Cash in Palomitas, then near Difunta Correa and finally insisted that it was in the latter place.
María Cash case: the prosecutor hopes that “the pact of silence will be broken”
Eduardo Villalbathe prosecutor investigating the case for the disappearance of María Cash, commented this Tuesday that ”the hope is that the pact of silence will be broken”. The young woman was last seen in Salta and, 13 years later, truck driver Héctor Romero is charged and detained in the case.
“It has been many years of work, now with an interdisciplinary team. Our hope is to give the family an answer. and that the pact of silence that was strengthened by the false complaints, voluntary and involuntary, that led to the search quickly in the wrong direction be broken,” said Villalba after charging the truck driver with the alleged homicide aggravated by the designer’s treachery.
Source: Ambito
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