A Seville court handed down a 20-year
prison sentence to the murderer of 17-year-old Marta del Castillo, whose body
has still not been found three years after the crime.
Miguel Carcaño, 21, was found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend with
an ashtray, then disposing of the body with the help of other people.
COURT = juzgado.............................................. .. ............GUILTY= culpable
MURDERER = asesino........................................................ASHTRAY= cenicero
HAND DOWN = pronunciarse, dictar sentencia.........................DISPOSE= deshacerse
Three other suspects in the case have been acquitted,
including Carcaño's stepbrother and the latter's girlfriend.
Last spring, a court also acquitted Javier García — who was underage at
the time of the crime — of murder and rape, but convicted him of covering up
for Carcaño.
ACQUITTED = absuelto................................................ UNDERAGE= menor de edad
STEPBROTHER = hermanastro........................................ RAPE = violación
THE LATTER = este último ............................................. CONVICT =condenar.....................COVER UP = encubrir
The prosecution requested 52 years for Carcaño for murder, rape and
attacking the moral integrity of Marta's family.
The victim's father, Antonio del Castillo, said on Friday that the
court's decision "makes no sense," as it acquits three out of the
four suspects, making it seem as if Carcaño killed Marta and got rid of her
body by himself(...)
PROSECUTION = abogado de la acusación, fiscal
GET RID = librarse de
(...) During the course of these three years, the main suspect gave wildly
different accounts of the events of January 24, 2009. At first he confessed to
the crime and said he and a friend threw the body into the Guadalquivir river,
which led to an extensive but fruitless search by the police. In March, he
changed his story and said he and a different friend raped and killed Marta,
then threw her body into a trash container, leading to another fruitless search
in the municipal dump. Yet later, he
retracted on the rape element.
ACCOUNT= versión.............. FRUITLESS SEARCH = infructuosa búsqueda .............., DUMP = vertedero
.............................................. Marta's body has not been found yet
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