Antonio Anglés

Antonio Anglés Martins (born 25 July 1966) is a Brazilian-Spanish criminal and fugitive with criminal records for mugging, robbery and drug trafficking. He lived in his native Brazil for a year before moving to Spain. According to his relatives and friends, Anglés was known as a habitually violent criminal who frequently beat up his mother.

Anglés is best known for his alleged participation in the kidnappings, tortures, rapes, and murders of Desirée Hernández, Miriam García, and Antonia Gómez, collectively known as the "Alcàsser Girls", which took place in Alcàsser, Valencia.

Life

Some raised doubts about the 25 July 1966 date of Anglés Martins' birth in São Paulo because the reports of the Spanish Civil Guards and the Police show different dates. Aside from this discrepancy, however, his early life has been documented. He was the fourth of nine children of Enrique Anglés and Neusa Martins, who were married in February 1959. By 1968, the family moved to Spain where they resided in a Valencia town called Catarroja. Sources show that Anglés Martins started living on his own in 1991 when he moved to 101 Camí Real in Catarroja.

He spent two years in prison for kidnapping, chaining and hitting 20-year-old Nuria Pera Mateu in January 1990, apparently for stealing some grams of heroin from him. The woman's life was saved thanks to the intervention of one of Anglés' brothers. Given a chance for social reintegration, he received penitentiary leave of six days in 1992, and he took advantage of it to escape, with the result that he didn't finish his sentence and he was from that point on an arrest warrant.