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Telephone tapping carried out by investigators in connection with the alleged murder of a 91-year-old man in Cullera, Valencia, Spain, provides new evidence about the case.

The death was allegedly carried out by the victim’s caregiver, in collaboration with a local parish priest, following the administration of psychotropic drugs.

Levante-Emv reports that the wiretaps reveal the active participation of the priest from the parish of San Antonio Abad, who, through his lawyer, declared that he only introduced the caregiver to the deceased to help him.

These statements are contradicted by the content of the wiretaps collected by the Guardia Civil, in which the priest tells the caregiver – who was named universal heir to the victim’s assets just 18 days after starting to look after him – that “if they insinuate that you poisoned him… . says ‘sorry, I just gave him the medicines they sent me and that’s it’”.

In another conversation, the parish priest warns the caregiver that “they will catch you in everything, in everything possible”, to which she responds “Me? They will also come after you”, to which the priest responds with confidence : “Not from me, from you.”

Priest wanted 15 thousand euros

In other conversations between the caregiver and family members, she states that the priest was asking for 15,000 euros from the elderly man’s inheritance, instead of the 6,000 euros that the elderly man left as an inheritance to the parish. Furthermore, the accused states that the priest “has already caught many grandparents with their inheritances” and that, on this occasion, “she knows that he also has everything to lose”.

Guardia Civil investigators suspect that, at the time of the arrest, the care provider was already looking for a new victim and was gaining the trust of another elderly patient without heirs.

Following the telephone tapping, it was also proven that the defendant mistreated the elderly man, calling him “sissy” and complaining about his bad smell and his continuous feces. She also confesses that she threw his ashes into the river, on orders from the parish priest.