Mexican woman gets 20 years for robbery with violence in Australian surfers’ killings
Mexico City: A Mexican woman who pleaded guilty to violent robbery in the 2024 killings of an American and two Australian surfers has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, authorities said.
A judge sentenced Ary Gisell Silva Raya in 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 kilometers south of Ensenada, Mexico, the Baja California State Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
Callum and Jake Robinson were killed during a surfing trip to the Baja California peninsula last year.
The prosecutor’s office said Silva Raya contacted three strangers in the coastal area of Punta San Jose and “incited his friends to steal their belongings.”
She was the romantic partner of one of the men accused of murdering Americans and Australians who had come from California to surf in the northern suburbs of Perth.
The surfers were allegedly robbed and shot, and their bodies were dumped in a remote well where investigators later found them.
Three people arrested on murder-related charges were detained while awaiting trial.
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