Madrid, May 22, 2025 (AFP) - Jail term quashed in gay man's murder that shocked Spain

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2025-05-22
A Spanish court said Thursday it had cleared a man who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the 2021 murder of a gay man that outraged the country. Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old Brazilian-born nursing assistant, died in hospital after a group of men viciously punched and kicked him outside a nightclub in the northwestern city of A Coruna in July 2021. A court handed prison sentences ranging from 10 to 24 years to four men over th......
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