Mexico City: A Mexican woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to robbery with violence in the case of the 2024 killings of an American and two Australian surfers, authorities said.
The Baja California State Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that a judge sentenced Ary Gisell Silva Raya in relation to the case of Australian brothers Callum Ryan Robinson and Jake Martin Robinson and their friend Jack Carter Rhoad, whose bodies were found in a sparsely populated area 80 kilometres south of Ensenada, Mexico.
Callum and Jake Robinson were killed while on a surf trip to the Baja California peninsula last year.
The prosecutor’s office said Silva Raya had made contact with the three foreigners in the coastal area of Punta San Jose and had “instigated her companions to rob them of their belongings”.
She was the romantic partner of one of the men charged in the killings of the American and Australians, from Perth’s northern suburbs, who had travelled from California to surf in the area.
The surfers were allegedly robbed and shot, and their bodies were then dumped in a remote well where investigators eventually found them.
The three men arrested on charges related to the killings remain in custody awaiting trial.
AP
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