The message of Luis Andrés Colmenares’ father to Jessy Quintero and Laura Moreno, ten years after the death of their son

The station La W spoke with Luis Colmenares, the father of Luis Andrés, about the ten years of the most controversial judicial case of the last decade. “I and likewise my family do not give up and (we think) that whatever has to be done, civilly, we are going to do it because it is our conviction,” said Colmenares.

For him, what Laura Moreno and Jessy Quintero told after they left the club was “discarded.” “The issue of the hot dog, what they wanted to recreate, was completely ruled out in court. It was shown that Luis went out with Laura and Jessy. And that they have to know what happened, in principle, because everyone, absolutely everyone Those who were at that party know what happened that night.

Regarding the information that was released a few weeks ago that the charges against Jessy were prescribed, Colmenares said that at home they were all concerned, but that the lawyer Jaime Lombana, who represents them, explained that this is not the case.

He also said that he hoped that the Bogota Court, which since 2017 has been reviewing the appeal request imposed by the Colmenares family for the acquittal that was given to Moreno and Quintero that same year, act with “impartiality” to demonstrate that there was a crime and He mentioned that it is not yet known what happened to his son’s clothes even though the clothes were reported when the body was lifted.

Finally, Sánchez Cristo reads Luis two emails sent to him by a police source in 2011, one informing him about the capture of Maria del Pilar Gómez, mother of Carlos Cárdenas, and his lawyer Aydé Acevedo Santos for obstruction of justice (who were acquitted in 2014 in the first and second instance). The other talks about the capture of Jessy Quintero and Laura Moreno that year in 2011.

A decade has now passed for a case that, until now, has not had a final verdict because neither of the two theories, neither the murder nor the accident, were confirmed and the case hangs by a thread that is the Court’s decision from Bogotá who will decide whether to end the case by freeing Laura Moreno and Jessy Quintero or withdraw their acquittal.

All the persons initially accused of having murdered Luis Andrés were acquitted. The most controversial case was that of Carlos Cárdenas, Laura Moreno’s ex-boyfriend who ended his process in 2014. He was pointed out as having caused the death of the young man out of jealousy that he was dating, at that time, with Moreno. The theory that was being handled was that he had hit him in that pipe. However, this could not be proven. He also had a second instance, but the decision remained in his favor.

In an interview with El Tiempo in commemoration of the ten years since the young man’s death, the mother says that time has helped her to accept what happened, however, that for her it was very difficult to understand why for a courtroom (in the courts ) her son had fallen and in the other he had been murdered.