Three Mexicans have been convicted of murdering two Australian brothers and their American friend during a surfing trip in Baja California, Mexico, in April 2024.
After a month-long trial in the coastal city of Ensenada, Judge Raúl Hernández ruled Friday that Jesús Gerardo García, alias “El Kekas,” Irineo Francisco “N” and Ángel Jesús “N” murdered Australians Callum and Jake Robinson and American Carter Redd Rhoad.
The three men were also convicted of armed robbery and armed carjacking.
“Today’s guilty verdict is an important moment in our long and painful journey to achieve justice for our beautiful sons, Callum and Jake, and their friend Carter Rhoad, whose lives were so cruelly taken from them in 2024,” Martin Robinson said.
The friends were reported missing shortly after arriving in the town of Punta San Jose in Baja California, about 50 miles from Ensenada.
Almost a week later, on May 3, the bodies of Callum, 33, Jake, 30, and Carter, 30, were found at the bottom of a well near their badly burned white van.
García, identified as the perpetrator of the triple murders, was arrested in May 2024 alongside his ex-girlfriend Ary Gisell Silva Raya, Irineo Francisco and Ángel Jesús.
Silva Raya said García approached the trio’s tent armed with a 9mm pistol and the tourists threw their belongings at him to try to repel the attack.
One of the tourists pleaded for his life to be spared, she testified.
García allegedly tried to steal tires and other parts from the surfers’ van, according to Baja California Attorney General María Elena Andrade Ramírez.
Prosecutors believe García shot the men as they resisted and then hid their bodies in a well.
The three Mexicans will be sentenced on October 16, with the Baja California state attorney general’s office requesting that each of them receive the “exemplary sentence” of 210 years in prison.
Silva Raya was found in possession of the traveler’s cell phones and was sentenced in November 2025 to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery and vehicular violence.
With post wires.
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