The author of the murder of three people in one hour in the Ciutat Vella district in 2020 has been sentenced by the Barcelona Court to 95 years in prison, after the jury unanimously found him guilty and rejected the mitigation of mental disorder and drugs

The chamber has imposed the maximum penalty requested by the Prosecutor's Office for two crimes of murder, one of homicide, another of arson, for four robberies with violence, one of injuries and two crimes of threats.

In addition, in his sentence, the magistrate has agreed compensation of between 50,000 and 300,000 euros for the relatives of the victims: a man, a woman and the municipal worker and journalist David Caminada.

The defendant, JMW, a man of Swedish nationality, perpetrated the three crimes in less than an hour, between three and four in the afternoon of that day, January 20, 2020.

First, the murderer entered a man's apartment and, for no known reason, killed him by stabbing him 249 times before slitting his throat and suffocating him with a bag tied to his head.

After that, he set fire to the apartment in order to erase his tracks and tracks, which caused the eviction of the residents of the property, thus putting their lives at risk.

Later, he climbed down through the apartment window to reach the street, where he murdered a 66-year-old woman who was coming out of a nearby doorway, hitting her head against its wall.

Immediately afterwards, he stole a motorcycle from a delivery man, tried to rob a store with a large knife and, finally, in this bloody journey, he moved to Plaza Sant Jaume, where he fatally stabbed his last victim, David Caminada, two times. journalist and municipal worker, who was leaving work at that time.

In accordance with the jury's verdict, the courtroom maintains in its sentence that the defendant committed the first of his murders with “unnecessary suffering” for the victim, since “he was merciless” with her, while in the second of the crimes, that of the woman, there was “great brutality”, as evidenced by the blows received.

In both cases, as well as with the third victim, the sentence says, the defendant had the intention of ending the lives of his victims, who could not defend themselves at “at any time”, since the attack occurred “suddenly, surprising and unexpected.

The sentence highlights the circumstance of the cruelty, which supposes an “aggravation of the reproach that the conduct” of the defendant deserves, to the extent that with the way of committing the crimes he saw himself “deliberately and inhumanly increasing the pain of the offended”.