1998News

Family feud breeds resentment

During the fifth day of the Llenas Aybar trial, the family feud over the inheritance left by the grandfather of the Llenas brother and sister (father of the murdered 12-year old José Rafael and mother of the confessed assassin) came up. Accomplice Juan Manuel Moliné Rodríguez has said that Mario José Redondo Llenas, cousin of the victim, was whom inflicted the 34 knife wounds to the boy. In the fifth day of the trial, the domestic servant who had worked in the house for 14 years, Fiordaliza Marte Carmona explained that the family problems worsened when Jose Rafael Llenas, the father of the boy, refused to use the inheritance money to pay a bill for medical treatment of his sister in the United States. The maid explained that the families distanced themselves and did not visit, despite living in the same apartment building. The original plan was to request a multi-million ransom for the 12-year old boy.