“They have good phones and good tyres” on their truck, the young woman allegedly told her three accomplices before they committed the murder, according to evidence gathered in the prosecutor’s investigation.
Silva was found guilty of crimes related to “violent robbery,” according to the ruling published on Thursday in the public records of the judicial authority of Baja California, bordering the United States.
According to evidence presented by the prosecution, Silva was the first to make contact with the tourists and noticed they had valuables. That prompted her to urge her boyfriend and the other two men to commit the robbery.
The three other individuals have already been arrested and charged with murder, but they are being tried in separate proceedings.
The surfers were reported missing on April 27, 2024, while camping in Ensenada, where they had travelled from the United States to surf.
According to the prosecution, the assailants “intentionally surprised the surfers and shot them with firearms, taking their lives on Sunday, April 28”.
The crime caused great indignation and sadness in their home countries, where an intense search campaign was launched in the media and on social networks.
The bodies were found on May 3, 2024, hidden in a cliff.
Other foreign tourists visiting the Mexican Pacific region had already been targets of criminal attacks.
In November 2015, two other Australian surfers, Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman, were murdered and their bodies later burned while travelling through the state of Sinaloa.
-Agence France-Presse
