Wanninkhof family want to see the Tony King case reopened

Wanninkhof family want to see the Tony King case reopened
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By h.b. - Oct 10, 2008 - 7:42 AM

Dolores Vázquez - Archive Photo EFE

Rocio Wanninkhof's mother wants to determine if Dolores Vázquez took part in the murder of her daughter, with the convicted Briton Tony King.

The mother of Rocio Wanninkhof, the youngster from Mijas Costa who was murdered in October 1999, has called for a new court case because she thinks that the man found guilty of killing of her daughter, the Briton Tony King, could not have acted alone.

The family lawyer has made an application to the Málaga Provincial Court to re-open the case, basing his arguments on the evidence from the case in which King was found guilty.
King was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the case, but the Wanninkhof family considers that two people would have been needed to carry out the crime and move the body. Lawyer Marcos García-Montes explained that they were not looking for new evidence, only to determine once and for all their ‘single obsession’ if Dolores Vázquez took part in the crime or not.

She is the woman who was a family friend, and had a lesbian relationship with Rocio’s mother and who was initially found guilty of the murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2001. Later that verdict was deemed as unsafe and overturned by the Andalucian High Court.

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