Pere Puig under police escort - EFE The man known as the ‘Gunman of Olot’, the 58 year old labourer Pere Puig, has been sentenced to 60 years in prison on four counts of murder, for the shooting dead of his two bosses and two bank employees in December last year.
He will serve a maximum of 25 years behind bars. The convicted man has been ordered to compensate the victims’ families with 643,000 € and must also pay the court costs for the case.
The jury which found him guilty did not consider there to be any diminished responsibility in the case, as had been claimed by the defence.
The murder weapon was a hunting shotgun which he used first against his bosses, the father and son constructors Joan and Ángel Tubert. They were shot dead at 7.45 am on December 15, 2010, as they were eating breakfast in a local restaurant in Olot. He then went on to a local branch of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo savings bank and killed Rafael Turró and Ana Molas.
He immediately confessed the four killings to the police officers who arrested him.
Puig refused to answer any questions from the prosecution during his trial, restricting himself to only answering questions from his lawyer and ratifying the statements he had made during the instruction phase of the case. He said during that phase that he killed his bosses because they owed him money, and had shot dead the bank staff because he felt defrauded by the bank.
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