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A few days after the 10th anniversary of the death of Los Andes student Luis Andrés Colmenares, his case is stirred again.
In 2017, the Colombian justice declared innocent Laura Moreno and Jessy Quintero, friends of Colmenares who saw everything that happened that morning, after an eventful Halloween party near El Virrey Park, north of Bogotá.
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However, an alleged new photo of Colmenares’ corpse, published by the magazine Week, returned to agitate the case, which is on appeal in the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá.
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The photo would show an alleged blow with a bottle that broke Colmenares’ skull, giving strength to the version of some alleged witnesses who say they saw that the university student was subjected to a beating and not a fall into the pipe because of his state of tilling.
‘The topic was dropped’
EL TIEMPO contacted the criminal lawyer Jesús Albeito Yepes, defender of Jessy Quintero and he assured that that version was widely discussed within the trial and was dismissed outright.
“At the time, there was talk of an alleged wound or pattern injury, which means that there is evidence of the body with which the blow was allegedly caused. But it was all about the confusion of an expert. That was flat out,” Yepes explained .
And added that they stir the issue again each time another anniversary approaches.
The trial against Laura Moreno and Jessy Quintero began in 2012. They were found not guilty.
New evidence?
Yepes also explained that they are pending the appeal filed by the Prosecutor’s Office and the victims’ lawyer.
“The case has been in the Superior Court of Bogotá for three years. But the evidentiary stage is closed,” said the lawyer.
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And he explained that although a review can be requested, it must be for a substantive issue and not for facts that were already widely discussed and resolved at the trial stage.
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