Filipino Woman Found Guilty Of Murdering Her Partner In Mellieħa Apartment
A jury has unanimously found Filipino national Mayumi Santos Patacsil guilty of murdering her partner back in 2021.
Jurors delivered a unanimous 9-0 guilty verdict after several hours of deliberation.
Patacsil was charged with stabbing her partner Marcelino Montalban Saraza to death at a Mellieħa apartment back in July 2021.
She testified that she acted in self-defence after years of domestic violence.
She testified that her partner had returned home drunk and aggressive and demanded sex, which she rejected.
She said the situation escalated physically and that Saraza bit her and pulled a knife out. While Patacsil remembered seizing the knife from him, she insisted she doesn’t remember what happened next other than that she grabbed her luggage, passport and papers and went to her friends for advice. Her friends told her to contact the authorities and she reported the incident to the Domestic Violence Unit.
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