A gang-rape victim left paralysed after jumping from a fifth-floor in a suicide attempt has died by euthanasia after a two year legal battle with her loved ones. Spaniard Noelia Castillo Ramos is understood to have passed away around 20 minutes after receiving the first of three injections at a hospital near Barcelona.

The first two jabs induced deep sedation and the third most potent one caused cardiac arrest. Noelia’s mum Yolanda Ramos spent last night with her at Sant Camil Hospital before the start of the scheduled 6pm local time procedure designed to “ensure a death without suffering.” Her father Geronimo Castillo, who waged a lengthy legal fight to try to get judges to block his daughter’s euthanasia request with the support of a Valladolid-based ultraconservative group called Christian Lawyers, was among other relatives including her siblings and maternal grandmother who arrived at the hospital to spend time with her earlier today.

Noelia, who spoke openly about her decision to end the mental and physical pain she has suffered for years during a Spanish TV interview earlier this week, was alone in the room when she died at her own request apart from the doctor administering her injections.

In an interview broadcast on Tuesday on a programme called ‘Y Ahora Sonsoles’ on Spain’s national Antena 3 station, after the European Court of Human Rights had backed her euthanasia wish, Noelia admitted: “None of my family support me but the happiness of a father does not have to be above that of a daughter or above a daughter’s life.

“I just want to go in peace and stop suffering.”

Revealing how she wanted to leave this world, she added: “I’ve always thought I want to die beautiful.

“I’ll put on my prettiest dress and make-up.”

Noelia’s mum had admitted she wanted to be with her daughter when she closed her eyes for the last time.

Yolanda confessed in her own TV interview: “We don’t agree with her but we’re with her.

“I don’t want her to die, I want her to live. It’s horrible.”

Noelia’sparents divorced when she was a child and she was already receiving psychiatric treatment as a 13-year-old.

She ended up in care and suffered two sexual assaults, the last one a gang rape by three boys in a nightclub.

The second attack, which Noelia has admitted she didn’t report to police, led to her October 4 2022 suicide attempt after several self-harm incidents when she leapt out of a fifth-floor window, leaving her with a serious and irreversible spinal cord injury.

She used a wheelchair to get around and suffered from excruciating leg and back pain which she says makes sleep difficult.

Noelia had admitted to suffering a borderline personality disorder and another compulsive obsessive one.

Her dad with the help of the Christian Lawyers group had used her mental health issues as his main argument in his attempts to halt his daughter’s euthanasia, first in a series of Spanish courts and then in Europe.

But judges insisted her mental faculties are “intact”, making her dramatic decision “free, conscious and informed” in line with the Spanish law on euthanasia.

Outlining her despair before her euthanasia request was initially granted on July 18, 2024, and she was told it would happen on August 1 that year before the start of her father’s legal interventions, she said on Spanish TV earlier this week: “Before requesting euthanasia, I saw my world as very dark.”

“I had no goals or objectives. I have always felt alone, I have never felt understood, and no one has ever empathised with me.”

Questioning her dad’s decisions which delayed her euthanasia wish, she added: “He has not respected my decision and never will.”

Noelia’s dad had not been expected to see her in hospital in the hours leading up to her death, but it emerged this afternoon he had spent time with her, along with her maternal grandmother.

Representatives from Christian Lawyers, who have used Noelia’s case to call for Spain’s euthanasia legislation to be abolished, were also outside the medical facility today along with campaigners for and against the controversial law.

Euthanasia in Spain has been legal since June 25, 2021. At the time, the country became the sixth state in the world to recognise nationwide the right to euthanasia.

Noelia’s case had made headlines around the world, mainly because of her age and her father’s legal fight to try to stop it going ahead.

In messages published online before Noelia’s euthanasia this afternoon, campaigners against it said: “On Thursday March 26 at 6pm Noelia will be euthanised. Pray for her life.”

Sympathiser Carla Gomez responded by saying: “Rest in peace and to those who don’t like Noelia’s decision, lump it. It’s her life and she has the right to decide.”

Jose Maria Fernandez, acting for Christian Lawyers, said around the time Noelia was about to be euthanised at the doors of the hospital: “The legal system has failed. The euthanasia legislation is being applied as an applied suicide law.

“The procedural system has failed, and there’s been a failure in this country’s health system.

“This is a young girl who has had a lot of problems, and obviously a very difficult life and we all regret this. But the only thing the health system has been able to provide her with has been death.

“We think Noelia should have received treatment a long time ago for her mental health problems.” He added: “We hope this case will serve at the very least to prevent it from happening again so there are no more Noelias.”