Rosa Peral has been transferred from prison for the sixth time as nine years pass since the Guardia Urbana crime in which she killed her boyfriend, Pedro Rodríguez, along with her lover, Albert López. During this time, Peral has been involved in multiple conflicts that have resulted in sanctions, disciplinary proceedings, and the opening of up to three new criminal cases. The penitentiary itinerary of the former urban guard is as follows: Wad-Ras, Brians 1, Mas d’Enric, Wad-Ras, Brians 1, Mas d’Enric and, now, again, Brians 1.
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Rosa Peral entered the women’s prison of Barcelona, Wad-Ras, on May 16, 2017. Her presence destabilized the internal coexistence of the penitentiary center and forced the director to request her transfer. In a statement before the Mossos d’Esquadra, the prison official assured that Peral undermined the most consolidated affinity groups and disturbed the stability of the module. Additionally, from Wad-Ras she allegedly tried to find a hitman to kill her ex-husband. The warning from one of the inmates led to her arrest inside the prison itself and the opening of a criminal case that was ultimately dismissed as the facts could not be proven. The case opened against Peral and López for the suspicious death of a street vendor who fell down a slope while both were patrolling Montjuic in 2014 was also dismissed. The investigation was archived.
From Wad-Ras she moved to Brians 1, where a disciplinary proceeding was opened after a mobile phone was found in her cell. A witness who shared the module with her stated on El programa de Ana Rosa that Peral trafficked drugs coming from the infirmary and outside. She remained in this center until May 2019 — barely two years after entering prison — when she was transferred again after a physical confrontation with another inmate who tried to snatch the card used to make purchases from the prison vending machines.
In nine years in prison, Peral has faced three criminal cases, one of which remains active for asset concealment
She returned to Wad-Ras, where her stay was brief. New internal conflicts caused her return to Brians 1. There she was involved in a new incident by interrupting a telephone interview that Telecinco was conducting with Ángela Dobrowolski, the ex-wife of television producer Josep Maria Mainat, who was serving a sentence for attempting to murder her ex-husband. Rosa Peral took the phone and took advantage of the connection to defend her innocence.
Later she was transferred to Mas d’Enric, the prison in Tarragona, the center where she has stayed the longest. In this prison, she was charged along with her father for a crime of asset concealment, as the judge considered that they consciously hid part of their assets to avoid paying the compensation set in the sentence in favor of Pedro Rodríguez’s family. The trial for this case is scheduled for 2027.
During her stay in Mas d’Enric, Peral was sanctioned for granting telephone interviews for the recording of the Netflix documentary Las cintas de Rosa Peral, and had an incident with a center monitor. In October 2024, Serveis Penitenciaris concluded that Rosa Peral was behind the violent assault suffered by an official when another inmate tried to suffocate her and pulled out several tufts of her hair. Now, the penitentiary administration has ordered her new transfer because, according to Diari de Tarragona, she was also behind an alleged plan to assault another center worker.
It was in Mas d’Enric where Rosa Peral regained media projection. She changed lawyers: from Olga Arderiu — the lawyer who defended her in the trial where she was sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty she faced — to Núria González, who has promoted various initiatives without any consequence. The latest was the request for a review of the sentence before the Supreme Court due to an alleged confession by Albert López that never existed.
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López, sentenced to 20 years in prison, as part of his penitentiary treatment and with the aim of accessing permits, admitted before the center’s psychologists the facts for which he was convicted: that he killed Pedro Rodríguez along with Rosa Peral. Some media mistakenly interpreted that López had confessed alone to the crime, and Peral took advantage of this interpretation to request a review of her sentence. The Supreme Court, upon verifying that such a confession did not exist, rejected the request.
The early hours of May 2 mark nine years since the murder of Pedro Rodríguez
The coming early hours will mark nine years since the murder of Guardia Urbana agent Pedro Rodríguez. His death left a boy of barely two years old fatherless and a brother who still mourns his loss. As every year, his colleagues from the Guardia Urbana Motorcyclists Unit will gather on the Foix reservoir road, where Rodríguez’s body was burned by Peral and López inside the trunk of his own vehicle.
The case was dubbed by this newspaper as the Guardia Urbana crime for having been committed by two agents of the same force: Rosa Peral and Albert López. In the early hours of May 1 to 2, 2017, as the sentence established, both defendants ended Pedro Rodríguez’s life while he was resting in the home he shared with Peral, located on the border between Vilanova i la Geltrú and Cubelles. They struck him with a blunt object with such violence that the blood even reached the ceiling light bulb.
That night they moved the victim’s vehicle, which was parked on the street, to the garden of the house and placed the corpse in the trunk, where it remained throughout May 2. During that day, with his partner’s body in the car, Rosa Peral used the deceased’s mobile phone to reply to messages and simulate that he was still alive. At dusk, together with Albert López, they drove the vehicle to a forest track at the Foix reservoir and set it on fire.
Beforehand, they tried to incriminate Peral’s ex-husband. They moved Pedro Rodríguez’s phone near Rosa’s ex-husband’s house, aware that the Mossos would track the terminal’s signal once the body was located, with the aim of misleading the investigators. The next day, Albert López already slept at Rosa Peral’s house as her partner. In fact, he was calmly on the sofa when the Mossos d’Esquadra knocked on the door after the charred body was found.
On May 4, both participated in a meal with Guardia Urbana colleagues. They maintained a pact of silence for several days until, under police pressure, Rosa Peral chose to incriminate Albert López. On May 13, 2017, she appeared at the Mossos d’Esquadra station in Sant Feliu de Llobregat to blame him for the first time. By then, the police had already gathered numerous proofs against her and proceeded to arrest her. Since then, Rosa Peral has remained in prison.
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