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Killer, 46, jailed for 70 years after cutting up body of girlfriend, 25, and flushing it down toilet
A KILLER has been jailed for 70 years after cutting up his girlfriend’s body and flushing it down the toilet.
Erik Francisco Robledo, 46, killed Ingrid Escamilla, 25, at his home in Mexico in February 2020.
Ingrid Escamilla had been studying a master’s when she was killed by her abusive partner[/caption]
He was handed the maximum sentence a criminal can get in Mexico following a trial that lasted over 26 hearings and ended last Thursday.
Robledo reportedly confessed to murdering his young lover before skinning and dismembering her and disposing of body parts and intestines down the toilet.
According to reports, neighbours called the police after seeing Robledo leave his home drenched in blood.
Footage from that night shows Robledo in a car with a head bandage and blood on his chest as he chats to police.
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He’s then heard saying he got into a heated argument with Ingrid and began to beat her.
“She said she wanted to kill me and I said do it. She took a knife and I said do it at once. She stabbed me once and I said do it stronger. And she tried two more times,” he’s heard saying.
When asked why he dismembered her body, he answered: “I did not want anyone to know.”
He added: “I used the same knife she attacked me with to stab her in her throat. I threw pieces of her dead body into the drainage system because I felt ashamed.”
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Prosecutor Nelly Montealegre, who specialises in gender violence, said the case was being treated as a femicide.
Ingrid reportedly filed a complaint against her civil engineer partner in July 2019 but later dropped the charges.
She had been studying a master’s in tourism and described herself as a person who loves adventures, pets and nature, according to her social media account.
Following last Thursday’s verdict, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Justice of Mexico City announced: “We obtained a sentence of 70 years in prison against Erick Francisco ‘N’ after proving his criminal responsibility in the familicide of the young woman.”
Robledo was also forced to cover Ingrid’s funeral expenses and pay compensation to her family.
Antelma Vargas, Ingrid’s mum, said the verdict showed justice was possible for victims of femicide.
She said: “I feel satisfied, although that is not going to bring my daughter back to life, but for those people who are living those processes that we live so long, that they do not give up, that they do not lose faith, that they fight until they achieve their goal because they do can.”
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In Mexico, an average of 10 females are killed by an abusive partner on a daily basis.
Only three per cent of the murders are criminally investigated, and only 1 per cent of those make it to court.
The 46-year-old cut up Ingrid’s body and flushed it down the toilet[/caption]
An average of 10 women are killed by an abusive partner in Mexico every day[/caption]
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Brit weeps in dock as he goes on trial for fatally smothering wife of 46 years in Cyprus after terminal cancer diagnosis
A BRIT accused of murdering his terminally ill wife to death in Cyprus wept in the dock as he went on trial.
David Hunter, 75, has been charged over the death of his wife Janice at their home in Paphos in December last year.
The trial opened on Monday at Paphos District Court after being delayed twice.
David admitted to cops he’d covered wife’s mouth and nose as she sat in her armchair in their home after she was diagnosed with incurable leukaemia in 2016.
He then tried to take his own life and spent two weeks in intensive care. The former miner denies he murdered Janice and instead claims his actions were done out of “mercy”.
Before the hearing, David, who was driven to the court in a police van from jail, told reporters: “She wasn’t just my wife she was my best friend. It’s like a black hole.
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“I used to think I could never imagine life without Janice but it’s just so much harder. I just live day to day. I have to keep my chin up.
“Janice’s sister had died from leukaemia and she saw what was coming. She made me promise her if she ever got it to help her.
“She said I don’t want to go through that. She knew the symptoms and saw them coming.”
David and Janice, who were married for 46 years, moved from Ashington, Northumberland, to Cyprus nearly 20 years ago.
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The pair fell in love with the island while holidaying there and moved after David, a former miner at Ellington Colliery, lost his job when the pit was shut down in 1994.
But in the run-up to Christmas last year, Janice allegedly started asking her husband to end her life as her health deteriorated.
At the hearing on Monday, the first police officer on the scene said David answered the door and told him: “I’ve killed my wife and tried to commit suicide.”
The officer went into the house and found Janice on a chair covered with a blanket, the court heard.
David is being represented by the UK-based legal aid group Justice Abroad.
He is said to be sharing a cell with 11 other men and faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars if found guilty.
Michael Polak, a barrister from the organisation who flew in for the trial, told the Guardian: “He is 76 and is desperate for the case to be heard.
“He has been in custody for a long time and it is clear, after visiting him in Nicosia central prison, that he is very anxious it gets off the ground.”
The couple’s daughter, Lesley Cawthorne, 49, said she needed her dad to come home so he could start grieving her mum properly and be looked after.
She said: “I can tell you he is very depressed. His mental health is probably the worst it has been.”
David’s lawyers had tried to get the charge of murder reduced to one of assisting suicide – claiming he acted out of love to end her suffering.
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But the Cypriot Attorney General rejected the request.
It is expected the case will be heard over a number of days between now and Christmas.
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I was terrified when I fell pregnant at 46, I never thought I’d have kids – I was so scared I got an early C-section
A SUPRISE pregnancy at any age can be scary and disrupt your life plan, whether you’re 16 or 46.
Here two women share their stories of how their lives were changed forever by a pregnancy that happened when they least expected it.
‘I was terrified to be pregnant for the first time aged 46’
Victoria Cunningham, 47, a yoga teacher and Pilates instructor, lives in Glasgow with her fiancé Stuart Chalmers, 44, a packaging designer, and their 11-month-old son Alisdair.
“Seeing the two crossed lines appear in that small plastic window, my whole body started to shake.
Could my dream of becoming a mother finally be coming true – at the age of 46?
When I met my ex-husband Mark* in 2002, aged 27, and married him two years later, becoming a mum was the last thing on my mind.
I enjoyed my work teaching yoga and Pilates, and I loved the freedom I had to travel and see friends.
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I felt like there just wasn’t space in my life for children.
That certainly wasn’t an issue for Mark, who didn’t want us to have kids either.
Then, in my 30s, my biological clock kicked in. But Mark’s views hadn’t shifted, and it drove a wedge between us.
He was angry that I’d changed my mind, while I blamed him for the fact that my fertile years were ticking away.
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It was the major reason our marriage ended in 2017, after 13 years.
Single at 42, I was heartbroken that my dream of motherhood was over.
Mark and I hadn’t always used contraception, but I’d never had even a pregnancy scare. So I was sure that I was infertile.
But I hadn’t given up on love. Internet dating was rocky until, in August 2019 and, aged 44, I saw Stuart on Bumble.
He was 41, creative, funny, good-looking and, unlike most of the men online, seemed normal!
We shared a love of India and, after two weeks of messaging, he invited me over for chai tea.
We instantly clicked and things moved quickly. Within a month I told him I loved him, and he said it back two months later.
I moved into his place in February 2020, just before the pandemic began.
Even with all the fear and worry of Covid, we were so happy together.
As for children, Stuart would have loved to be a dad. But he hadn’t met the right person and I was clearly past childbearing age.
We knew that our future would be wonderful, but wouldn’t include kids, so after a few months of living together we stopped using contraception.
Then, at the end of January 2021, I realised that my period was late.
At first, I was sure that it was the peri-menopause, but when it still hadn’t started by early February, a tiny voice inside asked: ‘Could I be pregnant?’
Certain that it was a waste of time, I waited until Stuart was out at work and bought a test.
When the blue cross appeared almost instantly, it was like the world stopped.
I immediately messaged Stuart, who was shocked but delighted.
But after dreaming about having a child for so long, I found pregnancy terrifying.
I was told mine was a ‘geriatric pregnancy’, which meant there were increased risks for me and the baby.
Plus, Covid restrictions meant appointments were on my own and there were no antenatal classes.
By 37 weeks my anxiety was so bad that doctors agreed to an early caesarean.
When Alisdair roared into the world, weighing 6lb 2oz, it was love at first sight. Stuart was equally thrilled to finally become a dad.
Alisdair is my legacy. Being his mum has changed my life forever – and filled the hole in my heart.”
‘I found out I was having a baby two months into my A levels’
Vee Roberts, 43, is a brand and marketing consultant from Surrey.
“Sitting in the clinic waiting room, I was sure it was all a big mistake; that the nurse would tell me that my period would come; that there was no way I was 16 and pregnant.
When I was growing up, my mum Pauline, now 64, and dad Vince, 65, were strict.
I wasn’t allowed to go to sleepovers or attend prom. Mum had dreams for me to focus on school and have a fulfilling career.
I loved studying and was good at it. In 1990, aged 11, I moved to a private secondary school on a partial scholarship.
I was the first in my family to go to a private school and everyone was proud.
When I met my first boyfriend Jermaine* at a record shop in 1993, at 14, I fell hard.
He was the same age, respectful, smart and my family liked him. We believed we’d be together forever.
We started having sex after my 16th birthday and I went on the Pill.
I think Mum knew we were sleeping together, but we never spoke about it.
In September 1995, I started studying for my A levels at a new school and was hoping for a career in law.
But the following month, I realised my period was late.
Jermaine didn’t panic – neither of us really believed that I was pregnant, but I took a test to make sure.
When I saw the two blue lines appear, I was so shocked, I didn’t cry.
My future, which had seemed so certain, was suddenly up in the air.
How was I going to tell Mum? I called my granny Eulalee, 85, who was my cheerleader.
I could tell her anything and she wouldn’t judge. I blurted it out and she was amazing, telling me to come right over.
After we hugged, she told me that we’d make the best of it, that the family would support me. That gave me the strength to call Mum.
I was so nervous as the silence on the line stretched out, before she said that she was going to be a grandmother and that we’d speak when I got home.
Later, I could see her disappointment, but knew she’d help. The relief was immense.
Once I told Dad, who was also shocked but supportive, I felt more positive.
At first, I was able to continue my A levels.
But in mid-November I developed anaemia and had terrible sickness. Exhausted, I knew I had to leave school.
The rest of my pregnancy was hard. I watched friends studying and partying as my bump grew bigger.
By July 1996, I was two weeks overdue and just wanted my baby to be born.
After 11 agonising hours, my daughter Roshan was finally placed in my arms, and I felt a massive wave of love.
But the following months weren’t easy. I was a child with my own child, a mother living with my own mum.
Jermaine was a great dad and lived with his family nearby.
We were on and off for a long time, but we didn’t stay together, although he’s stayed in our lives and we are good friends.
I loved Roshan unconditionally, but I had dreams.
When she was three months old, I started A level sociology and AS level English at college in the evenings.
As well as studying, I worked for BT, fitting shifts in where I could.
In 2000, I began a degree in branding marketing communications and was so proud to graduate in 2003 when Roshan was seven.
Juggling it all was a struggle, but our mother/daughter relationship has been rock solid.
Roshan is now 26 and has grown into an amazing woman.
When I started my marketing business Insight2Marketing in 2013, she was my biggest supporter.
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Four years later, I saw her graduate from Bournemouth University with a first-class degree.
That surprise baby has become my best friend and one of my proudest achievements.”
*Names have been changed Photography: Getty Images