After committing the crime at his home in General Roca Feb 27, 2008, the man went outside and told a neighbour what happened and before the police arrived tried to commit suicide by slitting his veins.

During the trial the motive of the homicide and the relationship between Sosa and Nahuelcar were never established, since no one in the victim's family knew who he was, but police who arrested him on the night of the murder said Sosa told them he killed the woman because she had been unfaithful to him.

'This is not justice, this is injustice. You can't give the same sentence for killing someone as for stealing a bicycle,' said the victim's father Juan Carlos Nahuelcar, who also intends to appeal the court's decision.

In Argentina, appeals against acquittals or adverse rulings to the prosecution's case may be lodged with the Supreme Court of Justice.