Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Nancy Martínez, sister of Keyla university student Patricia Martínez (26) who died inside a police cell in Hope, Demanded this Monday that the death of the young woman be clarified.
“My sister died at the hands of the policies of Hope, Intibucá, They are about rapists of human rights. It is not true that she was drunk and starring in scandals. ”
He added that the nursing student he had no reason to take his own life and he never showed suicidal instincts.
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“On the contrary, he had many plans and she was very happy because she had been accepted to do her internship, she loved her career. “
According to the young woman there are too many inconsistencies around the death of her sister, as reported by the National Police, In this locality, indicates that Martinez had vital signs when she was transferred until the Enrique Aguilar Cerrato hospital.
“However, what the hospital recorded was that Kayla entered dead, Transferred to the morgue and they called the Prosecutor’s Office to give evidence of fact “.
“Plus witnesses who were in the cells said they heard strange noises in the area where she was and then my sister said she wanted to die, so we can only think they did something to her. and therefore we demand justice. “
About the case
The undergraduate student in Nursing of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) was arrested by the police Saturday night.
According to authorities, Martinez was arrested at 11:40 p.m. for the crime of scandal on the public road in a state of intoxication and for non-compliance with the curfew in force according to PCM 012-2021, following a complaint to the 911 Emergency System.
At 3:30 a.m. Sunday, after a routine inspection by one of the police officers in the cells, he found the young woman, dying, suffocated presumably with one of her garments. “She was tied up in her blouse, tied to the cell door to her neck,” said Melvin Alvarenga, deputy police commissioner and head of the No. 1 Departmental Police Unit. 10.
She was then taken to a care center, the statement from the Secretary of Security.