Lola Chomnalez case: killer of Argentine teenager sentenced to 27 and a half years in prison

The justice of Uruguay sentenced the accused for the murder of the Argentine teenager to 27 and a half years in prison Lola Chomnalezoccurred nine years ago in a Uruguayan spa, lawyers for the victim’s family reported this Wednesday.

Leonardo David Sena Cabrera was convicted of the crime of very particularly aggravated murder of Chomnalez in December 2014 in Valizasabout 270 km east of Montevideo.

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“Consistency, teamwork and spiritual greatness of the family. Today they can sleep with less pain. Justice is served in the sentence handed down by Juan Giménez for the murder of Lola“, said the lawyer on the social network Jorge Barreira.

Lola Luna Chomnalez Belmonte She was 15 years old when she disappeared on December 28, 2014 while on vacation at her godmother’s house in Valizas.

Two days later, after an intense search of the area, her lifeless body was found half-buried in the sand near where she had last been seen.

The autopsy determined that the cause of death was suffocation and he had knife cuts on several parts of his body.

In May 2022, Sena, who was working in the Valizas region when Chomnalez disappeared, was arrested in the Uruguayan city of Chuylocated about 90 km from the resort and bordering Brazil. He had a history of bodily harm in 2003 and rape in 2009.

His arrest was possible due to DNA tests that linked him to the crime, combining genetic material found in the teenager’s backpack.

Due to the death of Chomnalez, another Uruguayan, Ángel Eduardo Moreira Martínezis arrested for the crime of concealment, in a case that reached the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ).

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Nicknamed “The Cachila”, Moreira, a car caretaker in Valizas, had been detained at the beginning of the investigation and later released because his DNA did not match that found among the victim’s belongings.

In 2019, he was prosecuted with preventive detention accused of being a co-author of the murder, but in June 2022 he was acquitted due to lack of evidence. The Public Prosecutor’s Office appealed the decision and, in February 2023, an appeal court sentenced him to eight years in prison for concealment.

Moreira’s defense challenged the decision before the SCJwhich ratified it last February.

Source: Elcomercio

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