Pilot faces 20 years in jail for stabbing man he feared was drugging him to kill on live-stream
A British man faces 20 years behind bars after being accused of stabbing a lover several times – an act which he claims was 'self-defence'.
Helicopter pilot Aaron Rainbow, 50, has been accused of stabbing Oscar Tornero Rovira to death in February 2023, after travelling back to the 38-year-old's apartment near Barcelona for a night of passion went drastically wrong.
Rainbow is accused of 'hiring' Rovira for a 'night of sex and drugs' before stabbing the man six times in his own apartment.
Prosecutors are now demanding a 20-year sentence for the pilot, which is about to go to trial, however Rainbow's family are arguing the killing was in self-defence as the 50-year-old feared he'd been drugged ahead of the pair's sexual encounter being live-streamed online and him killed.
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"After his arrest, Aaron said that he had been drugged, and he was aware of people watching online via cameras and he feared for his life," brother Dan Rainbow explained in a new interview with The Daily Mail.
"He wanted to get out of there because he had an uneasy feeling. He grabbed the knife in self-defence and that's when he fatally stabbed the guy he was in the house with."
According to Rainbow's version of events, he became uneasy after noticing Rovira making 'hand signals' to a camera and believing it was people were watching online.
"[Rovira made] a dash for the door, my brother thought he was letting people into the house, so he grabbed a knife, the fight has started and he's then fatally stabbed him but we say he was put into a position of fear, and the fight or flight response just kicked in," the pilot's brother continued.
"It really is like something out of a Netflix show, but this is real life here."
Dan also claimed that Spanish prosecutors are ignoring 'serious evidence' which back-up his brother's allegations regarding a destroyed Wi-Fi router.
"We believe people were connected to that router at the time, but it's been professionally sabotaged, and the data cannot be extracted but the prosecution just don't seem to be concerned," Dan claimed.
"We think that at least two other people were in close proximity to the house and connected to that router the night all this happened, and it's critical to Aaron's legitimate defence case.
"We believe this was a secret sex studio and that Aaron was duped into going there, drugged, with the intention of whatever was going to happen being filmed and watched by people, with who knows what would happen at the end."
Dan's claims have been backed up by Rainbow's defence lawyer Pedro Javier Gomez Martinez, who added: "Whether we are dealing with a drug-induced delirium or a real situation is something that only the destroyed router can clarify.
"But so far, nothing has been investigated despite multiple requests, and we suspect evidence has been destroyed and this evidence could prove his innocence in the case."
Meanwhile evidence from the trial also revealed that numerous drugs - including date rape substance GHB, cocaine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and MDMA - had been consumed by the men.
"The party began at 9.45pm. At around 2.45am, the defendant went to the kitchen and took a knife, with which he stabbed the victim several times," the indictment reads.
"Oscar tried to escape. He went to the door, went down the terrace stairs and tried to escape, but the outer door was locked, so the young man had to jump to the street from a height of three meters.
"He managed to walk a few steps but collapsed seconds later due to the severity of his injuries."
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Brenna Cooper