and indicated they were of human origin. On July 8, after the final reports were given by the Public Prosecution Service, the private prosecution and the defence, Bretón pleaded not guilty. On her behalf, the public prosecutor claimed that there were obvious evidences that proved that Bretón had murdered his children in the cruelest possible way and then burnt the corpses. On July 12, the jury decided unanimously that Bretón was guilty and condemned him to 40 years of imprisonment (20 per murder). Appeals by the defence Bretón’s defence appealed the sentence from the Audiencia Provincial of Córdoba to the High Court of Justice of Andalucía, emphasising the chain of custody of the evidences. The High Court of Justice of Andalucía rejected the appeal in November 2013 and confirmed the 40 years of prison sentence imposed by the Audiencia Provincial of Córdoba. The defence decided to bring an appeal to the Supreme Court of Spain, which rejected it unanimously in July 2014. The Audiencia Provincial of Cordova reduced the original sentence from 40 to 25 years of imprisonment by motion of the defence. Bretón was convicted for three different crimes (two murders and a simulation of kidnapping). Article 76 of the Spanish Criminal Code was applied. See also Asunta Basterra case Anna and Olivia case Notes References This article is a derivative work from "Los niños de Córdoba: cronología de la desaparición de los hermanos Ruth y José" by 20minutos.es journalists, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.This article contains text from the Sentencia del Tribunal del Jurado 1/2013 de la Audiencia Provincial de Córdoba, de 22 de julio de 2013, in public domain.'' 2011 in Spain People murdered in Spain Scandals in Spain Trials in Spain