1998News

12-year old assassination court hearing postponed

Judge Julio Cesar Cano Alfau postponed for 28 May the case against Mario Jose Redondo Llenas, Juan Manuel Moliné Rodríguez ,and against Luis Palma de la Calzada and Martin Palma Meccia, the husband and son of the former Argentine ambassador in the country. The four are the principal accused of the assassination of 12 year old Jose Rafael Llenas Aybar on 3 May 1996. The boy was found with 34 knife wounds in the Laguna de Arroyo Lebrón, near Km. 24 of Duarte Highway. The lawyers of the family of José Rafael Llenas said that the case was postponed because of a legal technicality used by lawyers of Mario José Redondo, in an effort to delay the case for unexplained reasons.