During a trial before the Seventh Criminal Municipal Court of Bogotá, Alexis Eduardo Ramírez Romaña has been identified through a photographic identification by the witness John Carlos Patiño, as the person who threw sulphuric acid to Daysi Natalia Valencia González’s body, a 21 year old woman in front of the Church El Paraiso, Patio Bonito neighborhood, Kennedy district, on August 8, 2011.
When the witness was questioned by the 51 Prosecutor in charge of this case, he stated that he was threatened several times by phone calls. For this reason, he was subject to the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia Witness Assistance and Protection Program in order to testify.
The day of the incident, the witness watched how Ramirez Romaña approached the victim slowly on his bike with a bottle that looked like water, and he began to spray it to his victim who began to scream and several people ran to help her immediately.
The witness stated under oath that he was less than 5 meters of distance from the aggressor and recognizes him because of his dark skinned complexion and a scar on his left eyebrow that distinguishes him from others. He also stated: “Besides, some days later the incident, I argued with him in the neighborhood when I identified him, he threatened me and treated me as an interloper and told me not to stick my nose into his business”.
In the presence of a civil servant from the Inspector General Office of Colombia, the witness identified Roman Ramirez between more than 8 people with similar morphological characteristics. He also explained on a map of the sector, the route used by the aggressor to flee after he committed the crime. Currently, he is an alleged responsible of the crime of aggravated bodily injury. Ramirez is under detention in La Modelo national prison.
For these facts, Martha Inés Sandoval was already sentenced to five years and nine months in prison as she paid 200 thousand pesos to the aggressor in order to throw acid to the victim.