It was reported by her lawyer in 2014 that there were almost no deliberations before her conviction, in spite of a total lack of evidence that she had killed Rocio. It is believed that the blanket negative coverage of Dolores, and the fact she was seen as already guilty in the public opinion, influenced the jury at her trial. Sonia's body was found in August 2003, and Tony King's girlfriend went to police in September, saying she had seen him come home with a blood stained T-shirt around the time Sonia went missing The following year he was sentenced to a further 19 years for Rocio's murder and all charges against Vázquez were dropped.īy the time she was released, Dolores had spent 17 months in prison, in what is now seen as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the judiciary history of Spain since 1910. In 2005, King was convicted of murder in Sonia's case and sentenced to 36 years in prison with an additional seven years for an unrelated sexual attack. In 2003, while investigating the murder of 17-year-old Sonia Carabantes, police found that DNA at the crime scene matched DNA found on Rocio's body, which belonged to British sex offender Tony Alexander King. Vázquez, now 69, was Rocio's mother's estranged lover at the time of the crime, and was arrested and convicted of murder with no evidence. She was portrayed as a 'predatory lesbian' by the Spanish media, which is thought to have influenced the jury. Murder on the Coast, which will be released on June 23, recounts how a media circus and widespread homophobia led to the arrest, trial, and eventual conviction of Maria Dolores Vázquez after Dutch-Spanish teen Rocio Wanninkhof, 19, was stabbed to death in 1999.
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The case of a woman wrongly convicted of murdering her ex-lover's teenage daughter on the Costa Del Sol is re-examined in a new Netflix documentary.