Johana
was shot dead days before her 20th birthday in August 2010. Her
ex-boyfriend, Victor Cingolani, was convicted of her murder. Edith Casas
believes Victor is not guilty of murder, insisting that her future
husband is the victim of a miscarriage of justice and is backing his
appeal against his murder conviction. She said: ‘Victor is not a violent
person and I’m not mad.
We’ve
got no doubts about what we’re doing. We love each other.’ A second
man, Johana’s boyfriend at the time of her murder, will go on trial next
year over the killing. Marcos Diaz was at a party with Johana hours
before she appeared dead. Lucas Chacon, Cingolani’s defence lawyer,
insisted: ‘The cigarette butts found near Johana’s body belonged to Diaz
and all the witnesses have incriminated him.’I can understand Johana’s
parents’ attitude. But Edith is not marrying a killer or anything like
it. ‘She is marrying a man who was convicted in a judicial scandal. All
we want is justice.’ The twin’s mother Marcelina said her surviving
daughter was guilty of a ‘terrible betrayal’.She said Edith was
suffering psychological problems and she feared Cingolani would take her
life too