20 year prison sentence for Miguel Carcaño, Marta del Castillo's killer

 

Miguel Carcaño, the self-confessed killer of the 17 year old Sevilla girl, Marta del Castillo, on January 24 2009, has been given a 20 year prison sentence for the crime, even though he was found not guilty on the charge of rape. His brother Francisco Javier Delgado, and the other two youths who are thought to have helped to dispose of the body, Samuel Benítez and María García have been released without charge. Carcaño will have to compensate Marta’s parents with 280,000 € and with 30,000 € each to Marta’s sisters. The prosecutor had asked for a 52 year prison sentence for Miguel Carcaño and between 5 and 8 years for his alleged accomplices. Marta’s grandfather, José Antonio Casanueva, said the sentence gives it to understand that she has vanished and that he felt ‘rage and indignation’ and said that he did not know how the judges reached this justice when there was evidence and proof that they had not taken into account. He described the sentence as ‘A jug of cold water’, and he called on Carcaño’s family to ‘tell all they know’. Marta’s father, Antonio del Castillo, said he will be reading the sentence in detail before making any comment. Later he said that the family is very affected by the sentence. ‘This has no rhyme or reason, to say that Carcaño had done everything alone’, he said. He told the press that his wife Eva was on the sofa crying her eyes out, unable to speak. ‘She can’t believe it, none of us can’, he said. After 19 sessions the case was ready for sentencing on November 29, when the family told the court that they could not alleviate their pain until the body of Marta has been found. Coincidentally police have ordered a new search for the body near the town of Camas where Miguel Carcaño has been living.