Little Julen Land Owner Spared Jail After Paying Fine

December 27, 2020December 27, 2020 Spain andalucia news in english, julen boy, spain news in english

The land owner in Totalan, Malaga, where two-year-old Julen died after falling down an illegally dug bore hole, has avoided a three month mandatory prison sentence after paying €500 towards the mandated compensation order.

His defence lawyer, Antonio Flores, said that the man doesn’t have enough money to eat, and that the lawyer’s office has lent him money to avoid the prison sentence.

David Serrano was sentenced by a Malaga criminal court to one year in prison, and to pay the parents of Julen, who died in January 2018, €89,529 in compensation, plus €663,982 to the Junta de Andalucia to cover the expense of the rescue operation.

The judge agreed to give him a suspended sentence as long as he committed no crime in two years and paid €50 to Julen’s parents every month until his situation improved. He also had to inform the court if he planned to change his address.

However the Malaga Public Prosecutor demanded that he be sent to prison for not maintaining the payments claiming he had only paid a total of €100 of the compensation that he had been ordered to a year ago and therefore in breach of the suspended sentencing conditions.

Julen, fell into an uncovered borehole in Cerro de la Corona.

The gap was less than 30 centimetres wide but 107 metres deep.

After an increasingc frantic search and subsequent rescue attempt, the little boy’s body was retrieved a week later.