Two members of Spain’s notorious ‘Wolf Pack’ sex attackers have their sentences reduced – CSN News

A COURT has confirmed reduced jail sentences for two members of the so-called ‘Wolf Pack’ convicted of raping a woman at the 2016 Pamplona bull runs.

The Navarre Supreme Court(TSJN) backed a lower bench ruling made in February which cut prison terms by 12 months for Jose Angel Prenda Martinez and Jesus Escudero Domínguez.

Each will serve 14 years behind bars.

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The TSJN dismissed appeals filed by the Navarre Government and Pamplona City Council, along with a privately prosecuted over the reductions.

You can appeal the matter to the Supreme Court of the country.

The lawyers for the two men used a loophole in Spain’s law on sexual crimes to reduce their sentences by a year.

The provincial court in Navarre said in February that it was ‘legally bound’ to apply the reduction after another member of the group had his sentence trimmed by a year after a successful appeal to the Supreme Court last year.

The ‘Wolf Pack’ case led to protests and calls for changes in the law after the five men were initially convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse because the 18-year-old victim did not resist out of fear.

In 2019, they were given new sentences of each 15 years, and three years after that a new statute was passed which classified non-consensual sexual acts as rape.

But because the new ‘yes means yes’ law carries a lower minimum sentence, it opened the door to convicted offenders to reduced prison terms or early release.

The government will change the laws for crimes committed since 2023 after reducing the sentences of more than 1,000 inmates.