La deuda de la justicia con Dolores Vázquez: 25 años sin reparar los 519 días de cárcel de una inocente
El caso Wanninkhof es la historia de lo que no debería repetirse: juicios mediáticos paralelos, homofobia y linchamiento social. Los tres años que el sistema se ensañó con la persona equivocada permitieron que el culpable, Tony King, asesinase a otra joven.
In the final days before retiring, Judge Fernando González Zubieta addressed criminal lawyer Pedro Apalategui in his Audiencia de Málaga dispatch. Apalategui requested that Judge González convey his affection to Dolores Vázquez and express his hope for her happiness. Beneath the cordiality and melancholy underlying the message lies the years of anguish since the judge sentenced Vázquez to 15 years and one day in prison for a murder she did not commit in 2001.
Apalategui confides in his Málaga home, shortly after the 25-year mark of a case that marked his life, that Vázquez was the only one who displayed remorse. No others who participated in the legal proceedings showed signs of regret. The scene was a spectacle, concluded with the audience applauding the verdict as if in a theater while Apalategui covered the accused in his gown to prevent cameras from capturing his unraveling on film forever.
Feeling protected after being acquitted of her innocence, Vázquez insisted in her final argument: "Seek the guilty, they are out there. They have never had anything against me and they never will because I am innocent."
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