Carola Labrado’s lawyer, Fernando Burlando, said on Sunday that one of the suspects arrested in connection to the murder of 11-year old Candela Rodríguez “could be the one who committed the crime.”
“The investigation is going the right way,” he said, adding that authorities will be able to press charges on the one or several of the suspects in prison.
“It’s still a long way from pressing charges to reaching a sentence for this crime, but we’re heading the right way,” he explained.
At the same time, he stressed that the girl’s mother did not conceal any information from the police nor displayed a suspicious behaviour, adding that “she’s just one more victim of this country’s insecurity.”
“Widespread doubt is a social malady and a shame. Carola is in pain for several reasons. The most important one is the loss of her daughter, but she’s also hurting because of what she hears people say about her,” he explained.
Burlando closed by arguing that “casting the shadow of a doubt over a mother who has just lost her daughter means a total loss of values.”
His statements were made in relation to the suspicions falling on Labrador after rumours of her alleged ties to the drug trafficking business or any other illegal activities that may have ended up in the perpetrators exacting revenge on her by killing her daughter.