Court Denies Prescription and Ratifies Sentence Against Jaime Saade for the Murder of Nancy Mestre
The Superior Court of Valledupar recently confirmed the conviction against Jaime Enrique Saade Cormane for the feminicide of Nancy Mestre. In the deci...
TL;DR
- The Superior Court of Valledupar confirmed the conviction of Jaime Enrique Saade Cormane for the feminicide of Nancy Mestre.
- The court rejected Saade's request for the case to be prescribed or closed.
- The court determined that the prescriptive term should be calculated based on the imposed sentence, not the executable one.
- Saade's prescriptive term was reinitiated on October 9, 2020, after his release in Brazil, and had not expired by his recapture on May 1, 2023.
- Saade was extradited from Brazil to Colombia on April 11, 2024, after being wanted for nearly three decades.
- He was originally sentenced to 27 years and 6 months for aggravated homicide and violent carnal access in the 1994 murder of Nancy Mestre.
- Nancy Mestre, 19, was found with a gunshot wound to the head and signs of sexual abuse.
- Martín Mestre, Nancy's father, and his lawyer Raúl Romero del Río celebrated the court's decision, with del Río stating that "the cycle is closed."