Mallorca murder trial: child in car

In Can Pastilla, Mallorca, a man faces a murder trial on Friday accused of stabbing his partner up to 66 times in a car while their daughter, then under two, sat in the back. Prosecutors are seeking 27 years in prison over the woman’s death. A jury at the Balearic Islands Provincial Court in Palma will hear the case.

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A protection order was already in place

The woman was killed in December 2024. The previous month, the man had been ordered to stay more than 500 metres away from her and barred from contacting her. He wore an electronic monitoring bracelet. Prosecutors say he nevertheless persuaded her, through calls and messages, to meet him and collect their daughter together from childcare.

After they picked up the child, he drove and the woman sat beside him. On the Camí de Can Pastilla, prosecutors say, he pulled a knife from his clothes and stabbed her in the head, neck, chest, abdomen and arms. They say the cramped car left her unable to defend herself. She died minutes later.

The man then accelerated, causing several road accidents before his car hit another vehicle from behind and stopped, according to prosecutors. He fled on foot. Palma Local Police arrested him half an hour later in a nearby park.

Prosecutors seek 27 years

Prosecutors are seeking 25 years for murder, plus one year each for breaching the protection order and for assault within the family. They also want him stripped of parental authority and barred for 33 years from contacting his daughters or coming within 1,000 metres of them or their places of study or work. They are seeking almost €250,000 in compensation for the woman’s relatives.

The jury will be formed at 09.30 on Friday, before the charges and opening statements are read. The defendant’s questioning and witness evidence are scheduled from 12.30, with witnesses due to continue the following week.

Mallorca murder trial: child in car as woman stabbed

A protection order was already in place

Prosecutors seek 27 years