Spanish woman who killed daughter’s rapist goes free pending official pardon
4th March 2011
Mari Carmen Garcia set fire to the man found guilty of raping her youngest daughter in 1998 when she was 13 years old.
The man, identified only as Antonio C.V, had been sentenced to nine years for the crime but was on day release from prison in June 2005 when he approached his victim’s mother at a bus stop near her home in Benjuzar, near Alicante, on Spain’s Costa Blanca.
When he asked after her daughter, Mrs Garcia became so enraged she went and fetched a bottle of petrol, doused him with fuel and then set him alight. He died in hospital from the burns several days later.
Sometimes the old ways are best.