Aaron Rainbowand pilot 50-year-old Briton, is accused of the murder of Oscar Tornero Roviraa 38-year-old Spanish young man who died after being stabbed six times after a sexual encounter in Vallgorguina, a rural town 30 minutes from Barcelona, Spain.
It happened in February 2023, but the crime returns to the headlines because the sentence will soon be handed down, which can be up to two decades in prison. The former commercial pilot has been in custody for three years, awaiting the judicial process.
The case generates shock due to the tenor of the events, which includes a marathon of drugs and an alleged live broadcastwithout consent of the participants, during the sexual act.
Aaron Rainbow, British pilot with 24 years of commercial flying experience.Although the accused admitted to hurting Oscar, he maintains his innocence and claims that it was self-defense. His family spoke to the British media about that tragic morning.
The pilot version: secret dates with a «taxy boy» for 6 years
The trial indictment alleges that Rainbow, a former aviator originally from Surrey, «hired the victim for a night of sex and drugs»as soon as he landed in Barcelona.
Oscar, the murdered young man, worked in a fashion store in the Spanish city during the day, but he also offered himself as male escort and I had known Rainbow for six years.
They met at 9:45 p.m., and six hours later, around 2:45 a.m., the pilot went to the kitchen and took a knife, with which he stabbed the victim.
The victim, Oscar Tornero Rovira, worked as a salesperson for leading European fashion brands. (Photo: LinkedIn)The forensic experts confirmed that Oscar tried to escape while bleeding to death. He went to the door, went down the stairs, found the outer door closed, and in desperation jumped onto the street from a height of three meters.
«He managed to walk a few steps, but collapsed due to the severity of his injuries,» said the prosecutor. Félix Martín, who demands the maximum sentence of 20 years.
A cocktail of drugs was found at the crime scene: the scandalous and potentially deadly substance GHB, cocaine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and MDMA.
«During the meeting They installed a mattress in the living room of the house and arranged various sex toysViagra and narcotic substances,» explained prosecutor Martín.
Oscar Tornero Rovira was 38 years old. (Photo: LinkedIn)Neighbors heard screams and called the police. When the agents arrived, they found Oscar without vital signs, lying on the ground a few meters from the exit that led to the street, and Rainbow in a «state of confusion», who did not respond to the officers’ request to put her hands up and surrender.
«The police fired their weapons into the air to subdue him and handcuff him, and immediately confessed to the murderbut he insisted that it was to protect his life»; reveals the judicial document.
Rainbow claims that he was disoriented due to drug use, but that he suspected that the young man was filming him without his consent while they were having sex, and that he felt that his life was at risk.
The pilot’s family demands that the router be investigated to verify that there was an internet transmission
In dialogue with the Daily Mailrelatives of the accused demand that computer expertise be carried out before the sentence is handed down. «My brother wanted to get out of there because he had a bad feeling; He said that he had been drugged, that he knew that there were people watching it online through several cameras and that he feared for his life,» said the pilot’s brother.
«Aaron says he heard loud breathing from somewhere in the room that night, and that Oscar started making hand signals to one of the cameras my brother discovered, and he thought, ‘Shit, someone’s watching, I have to get out of here ASAP,'» he continued about the version the inmate told him.
Pilot Aaron Rainbow worked for Babcock International Group, as captain of an AW 139 helicopter. (Photo: LinkedIn)«The guy ran to the door as soon as he confronted him about the possibility that he had filmed him, my brother thought that Oscar was letting people into the house, that’s how the fight started and then he fatally stabbed him, but it was all an intuitive response to feeling in danger,» he said.
«We have arranged our own defense computer experts, so that the truth is known, especially in the analysis of a router that was removed from the crime scene the day after the incident, by a friend of the deceased«he assured.
«We believe there were people connected to that router at the time, but it was professionally sabotaged and now all the data cannot be extracted,» he explained.
Furthermore, Aaron’s relatives assured that he He had never told them about his sexual orientation.and that these appointments had been secret and in remote places, far from the city.
«We didn’t even know Aaron was gay until all this happened. He’s in prison and his life has been taken from him; he has a life to get back and a career to get back to, because he’s a kind, gentle human being, a highly respected professional who has no history of violent behavior or criminal record,» they said.
«We simply don’t trust the police because they say nothing relevant was found on the electronic devices, but we say they have not been properly examined and my brother faces a long time behind bars,» they said.
«We believe that at least two other people were near the house and connected to that router, that the records provided are false, because the device was intentionally severely damaged, and each of those records is essential for Aaron’s legitimate defense,» insists the pilot’s family.
«We are convinced that that place was a secret sex study and that Aaron was tricked into going there, drugged, with the intention that everything that happened would be filmed, and who knows what would happen in the end,» they questioned.
«If Aaron had not done what he did, how do we know he would have gotten out of there alive that night? We believe this case covers up much more than is known so far,» they maintained.
Regarding the family’s version, the prosecution confirmed that the home had security cameras installed, but they were turned off the night of the incident. They also demanded data records from the provider Orange, and they assured that there was no evidence of users connected at the time of the homicide.
In the midst of the countdown to the trial, which still does not have a definitive date, but is expected to be in the coming months, prosecutor Martín remains firm in the accusation, and considers that Rainbow attacked Oscar unexpectedly, when he was «in the tranquility of his home and in the context of intimate relationships.»
