Mallorca father and son murder trial

A man, 80, and his son, 19, are facing a total of 43 years in prison for killing the youth’s mother in their home in Palma de Mallorca in 2013.

In the early hours of the morning of February 28, 2013, following an argument, the young man allegedly grabbed his mother, 60, pushed her to the floor and repeatedly beat her around the head with a three-kilo dumbbell before strangling her with an electric cable, while his father watched.

According to her secret diary, found by the National Police, she had been abused by her husband and son since the boy was 13 and feared for her life.

The youth, who already had a criminal record, was remanded in prison, and confessed to the crime late last year, claiming his father had not been involved.

However, the older man is charged with habitually abusing and humiliating his wife and allowing their son to do the same.

On one occasion, when the boy threw a can of condensed milk at her head, his father justified his actions and didn’t accompany her to the health centre, where she was given stitches.

He refused her money for clothes, despite the family being well off, banned her from seeing her relatives and beat her when they argued.

The youth had been involved with a girl under 18 who he left when she got pregnant, and had recently returned from Madrid, where his girlfriend lived, and he wanted to move although his mother disagreed.

After killing her, he reportedly searched the internet for information on how to clean up a crime scene and the emergency services were not called for several hours. Father and son initially said her death had been an accident.