Parot Doctrine prisoners released: Fears 'satanic' Alcàsser schoolgirl killer could be next
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 @ 12:26 PM
PARENTS of three teenage girls gang-raped, tortured and brutally murdered after hitch-hiking to a disco in 1992 fear the ECHR's verdict on the Parot Doctrine could mean their killer goes free.
Desirée Hernández Folch and Miriam García Íborra, both 14 and Antonia 'Toñi' Gómez Rodríguez, 15, went missing on Friday 13th in November 1992 when they were on their way to Coolor disco in Picassent (Valencia province), near their home village of Alcàsser, but never arrived.
Their murder by two strangers, described at the time as 'satanic', was the most brutal seen in Spain since the Civil War and extremely rare, given that the country's violent crime statistics have always been among the lowest in Europe and in nearly all cases, victims and killers know each other well.
And Miguel Ricart, now 44, may be another candidate for early release from jail as a result of the European Court of Human Rights having declared Spain is in breach of EU law by applying the Doctrine retroactively.
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