As the days go by, new information is being uncovered about the last hours of Tomas Gimeno and his daughters, Anna and Olivia, before they disappeared on April 27th, and now it has transpired that, although he kept his intention to murder them a secret, he did share with his current girlfriend that he did not intend to return the girls to their mother. Despite knowing this, she did not report him.
Gimeno was currently in a romantic relationship with the director of a language centre where his daughter Olivia attended German classes, and when taking her to school that day, he gave her a box with the instruction not to open it until later that night.
However, she opened it in the afternoon and inside it found cash and a letter in which he recounted his intention to take them out of the country, as reported by the Antena 3 TV program 'Espejo Público'.
Throughout that afternoon, Gimeno and his current partner were in contact by phone and she tried to dissuade him from his intentions, by asking how Anna and Olivia were going to live without their mother, to which he replied that they would get used to it. According to this information, the girlfriend learned that the man had no intention of returning the girls, but did not inform the authorities.
The discovery of the body of little Olivia last Thursday, three miles off the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, denies these intentions of Gimeno, who, according to the judge's order, “ took his daughters to a planned death in a premeditated way, to inflict maximum hurt on their mother and his ex-wife.”
The search for Anna and her father ends on Thursday:
The desire to find Tomás Gimeno and his 1-year-old daughter, Anna, has again gained strength with the resumption of the search at sea by the ship Ángeles Alvariño yesterday, after a mechanical breakdown on Saturday meant it had to return to dock after 13 days of continuous searching.
That stop coincided with the disclosure of the preliminary results of the autopsy performed on little Olivia, according to which the girl died of acute pulmonary oedema.
The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has indicated that the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences calculates that the result of the rest of the chemical-toxicological, biological and histopathological studies to complete the conclusions will be obtained within at least two weeks.
Forensics released a statement yesterday in which they ask for "extreme caution" regarding the possible interpretations of the preliminary autopsy report of the girl, and underline that the fact that the immediate cause of death was "compatible with acute lung oedema, does not allow in any case to venture hypotheses such as drowning or inhalation of toxins.”
The fact that Tomas Gimeno’s body has not been found has led to the titular magistrate of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 3 of Güímar, which instructed the preliminary proceedings in this case until its referral to the Gender Violence Court of Santa Cruz of Tenerife, to request an international arrest warrant against him for two crimes of aggravated homicide and another in the field of sexist violence.
The objective of this international arrest warrant is that Tomás Gimeno, whose body has not been located in the tracking zone, where the signal of his mobile phone was lost at 2:27am on April 28th, responds to the crimes that are attributed to him "and thus avoid the possibility that he may escape the action of justice if found alive."
In the same order, the magistrate states that "although only Olivia's body has been located so far, the most probable factual hypothesis regarding Anna is, unfortunately, the same fate."
