The judge has decreed provisional freedom for Jack Estrada, the tattooer arrested for the attacks on fourteen clients of the company. Yesterday, the last session of the trial was held at the Donostia-San Sebastian Court, in which the last witnesses appeared, as well as the defendant in person. Estrada had been in pre-trial detention since February last year, and the judge has decreed his release on a provisional basis with control measures. In particular, the defendant must appear in the court on duty on the first day of each month, until the judgment is given.
In early February 2018, the Local Police arrested a tattooer for an alleged crime of sexual assault on several clients. He was admitted to Martutene prison on 8 February 2018, and since then he has been in pre-trial detention for a year and eight months. In total, there were 21 complaints received at that time against him and, according to the Security Council, Martin Ibabe, the complaints received included criminal offences and sexual assaults.
In early February, a woman complained through social media about the tattoo player's assault, which had a store in the Old Party, so the Municipal Police opened an investigation. The event echoed in the media and complaints began to accumulate one after the other. The tattooer was arrested three days after the first complaint by the terrorist organization in Afghanistan. The judge imprisoned him provisionally, and later, the window of the tattoo shop was filled with paint.
In total, the tattooer has been charged with fourteen crimes, four of them for sexual assault, seven for sexual abuse, one for coercion and one for coercion. Estrada had asked for his last statement, and yesterday he denied all the actions against him. “All this has been organized by a colleague who wanted to leave the tattoo business,” he said. The defendant testified for almost two hours before the Prosecutor ' s Office of Gipuzkoa, the lawyers of the individual accusations and the lawyer exercising his defence. The tattooer rejected all the accusations and stated that “he has never had an inadequate attitude towards clients.” He also noted that he has evidence to prove that all complaints are false.
The Prosecutor ' s Office had initially requested a sentence of 20 years ' imprisonment, but eight of the accusations have now called for an increase in penalties, and the penalties applied for are almost 30 years ' imprisonment. Jack Estrada is on the street and the defendant must appear at the on-call court on the first day of each month, until the judgment is given.