JOANA CIPRIANO - Aged 8 years - Figueira (Portugal)

merlynsam
Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:01 pm

EWE2 wrote:

merlynsam wrote:EWE

I have copied your post onto the Joana Cipriano thread. We need to hold onto information regarding our important discussions. I know that you won't mind.

Now, I am just going through everything you posted and have ended up a bit confused:

1. Leonel Marques, Pereira Cristóvão and Paulo Bom are accused of torture. (3 people)
2. António Cardoso, is accused of falsifying documents for having allegedly lied in the report of what had happened to Joana’s mother. (4 people)
3. Tavares Almeida is one of three officers accused of beating Virgolino Borges (5 people so far)

.....where is the information on Dr Gonçalo Amaral?

I thought charges were made against 4 people. There are a possible 6 named here aren't there?

Oh, I am very clear that Gonçalo Amaral stands accused. I am also clear that if the Portuguese Minister for Public Prosecution has designated the case for trial then there is some evidence to support his decision.

EWE, I am simply seeking further clarification. I have no axe to grind. As ever, I will go where the evidence takes me.

Is this what you are looking for Merly? The other link does not appear to work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=517685&in_page_id=1770

Whoops! So there is my first mistake - there are 5 going to trial according this Daily Mirror report.

Amaral's lawyer Dr António Cabrita said: "I can confirm that the Prosecuting Counsel has decided that all five officers will go to trial.

The officers who will face charges of torture are:
- Chief Inspector Leonel Marques (retired)
- Inspector Pereira Cristovao (early retirement)
- Inspector Paulo Bom

The officer who will face charges of falsification of documents is:
- Inspector Antonio Cardosa

The officer who will face charges of false testimony is:
- Gonçalo Amaral

There is still a 6th person adrift: Tavares Almeida (alleged to be one of three officers accused of beating Virgolino Borges). But we have the names of the three officers allegedto have beaten Leonor Cipriano.

I'll re-post this on Joana's thread and think about it another day!

Thanks EWE - we do try to pin down the facts don't we?

susikins
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:05 pm

http://janaisabelciprianoguerreiro.blogspot.com/2007/10/quem-esta-menina.html
sorry did not get date on this one but looks like they are ????saying as i cannot translate it for some reason is this joana Cipriano, this is when they took the photograph of ??? madeleine on the back of that woman/man in morocco.

tizzy
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 7:10 pm

susikins wrote:http://janaisabelciprianoguerreiro.blogspot.com/2007/10/quem-esta-menina.html
sorry did not get date on this one but looks like they are ????saying as i cannot translate it for some reason is this joana Cipriano, this is when they took the photograph of ??? madeleine on the back of that woman/man in morocco.

I haven't posted for ages (still come to read), but this made the hairs on my neck stand up, thanks susikins!

susikins
Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:26 pm

i know makes you wonder why at the same time madeleine was a ? on the lady/mans back why this has not made the news as well...you never know. i have seen photographs of the couple involved in the ?? mix up of the look alike madeleine but never saw the older girl in any picture other than that one.. but well spotted even if it is not her to whoever put the young joana and this unknown girl together.

sue x x

tizzy wrote:

susikins wrote:http://janaisabelciprianoguerreiro.blogspot.com/2007/10/quem-esta-menina.html
sorry did not get date on this one but looks like they are ????saying as i cannot translate it for some reason is this joana Cipriano, this is when they took the photograph of ??? madeleine on the back of that woman/man in morocco.

I haven't posted for ages (still come to read), but this made the hairs on my neck stand up, thanks susikins!

ewe2
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 11:27 pm

I remember when the Morrocco picture was shown, people at the time wondered if the other girl could be Joana. If it wasn't mentioned here it was probably on Only Madeleine.

merlynsam
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:00 am

JOANA MORAIS posted the following comment at http://proud-of-the-pj.blogspot.com/

Regarding the smears against Gonçalo Amaral:

[My answer to another poster who said she didn't trust Amaral]:

"Do you know Mr. Amaral personally? Or are you judging him for what you read the british tabloids- aka gutter press aka mccann’s media? What do you know about him, the Judiciary Police or the system of Justice in Portugal?

I’ll give you my opinion regarding the book ‘Truth of the Lie’ – ‘Verdade da Mentira’.
“It is going to explain the whole lie that was created and to put in question the institutions that investigated and that are connected to the case ”

The fact is that the Judiciary Police Organic (Structural) Law took almost 2 years to be promulgated after it was approved at the “Concelho de Ministros” - ‘Ministries Council’(don’t know if I can translate like this), that huge delay undermined and affected greatly the work of the PJ.
It was passed at 10th April 2008 with the votes of the PS (socialist party) only.

The law in itself would and will close some of the Police departments, like the DIC in Faro, and others in Portugal.

Some elements like Paulo Rebelo, Gonçalo Amaral even asked for their resignations as PJ Chief inspectors and coordinators of Portimão’s DIC as a way to express that they were not pleased.

The Judiciary Police, though it has a union - ASFIC - lead by Carlos Anjos are not allowed to go on strike.

Last time (21 April 1989/ PSD - right wing government) Police Officers tried to go on strike, one of the most horrible situations happened. Police forces pro and anti strike met in Terreiro do Paço, a big square in Lisbon’s downtown, and a battle between them started, luckily no one pulled the guns, but there were lot’s of injuries because ’shock’ police forces appeared with dogs and water cannons. Horrible scenario, even now subsists some hatred between those who fought for the right to strike over poor conditions in the Police force, and those who attacked them.

The name of that fight is now remembered symbolically as the : “Secos e Molhados” - “Dry and Wet” day which the various Police unions now celebrate as a day never to be forgotten. A symbol for their fight.

see the video remembering that day after 17 years here http://preview.tinyurl.com/4b6l5y

Another fact that Mr.Gonçalo Amaral is going to probably explore in his book is why Alípio Ribeiro, national PJ’s director who talked to the media was supported by Alberto Costa the Minister of Justice and not sacked like Gonçalo Amaral was “removed of Maddie’s investigation” and like Olegário de Sousa, the PJ’s PR was taken off the case for speaking “too much to the media”. There are more internal situations which would be hard to explain to foreigners but now maybe you understand a bit better the reason for the book. Freedom of speech, democracy, dignity, morals are not empty words in Portugal.

About the Cipriano case, and for those who defend neglectful parents:

Why you defend child killers and paedophiles like Leonor and João Cipriano as well ? Did you know that Joana’s blood was found inside the freezer of the Cipriano’s house, in a T-Sirt, in another Shirt, in the sofa? Did you Know that it was confirmed by Laboratory analyses that some of Joana’s clothes (like her knickers) had traces of sperm and blood, that her bed had traces of sperm. That Leonor and João Cipriano were brothers and had sex with each other. That João Cipriano explained step by step how he carved Joana’s body and how they gave her body parts to the pigs (who eat everything). Did you Know? Or are you defending something which cannot be defended. Where is your moral, do you have ANY left? Can you imagine the SUFFERING OF A LITTLE GIRL BEING RAPED AND SODOMIZED?"

And the discussion continued where I explained to the same poster my opinion on the case:

"...the problem was how Amaral was portrayed in the B.Media. Did you know that there was a line up of all the Police officers that Leonor Cipriano accused allegedly of torture, and she failed to recognize any of those officers? Did you know that Leonor gave several statements to the Portuguese Media in a similar way to the McCanns, crying and everything. That only after a year in jail or so, she stated that Joana wasn’t dead but she was sold by a uncle who had drug problems, however in court she never showed any remorse while the video of the carving of Joana’s body re-enacted by her brother, João Cipriano, was displayed. Many “consumers” of British Media have another idea, and that’s because most British journalists covering Madeleine McCann abduction strongly believe that truth never should be allowed to “kill” a good story. Even if I means destroying the reputation of an experienced CID Chief-Inspector- Gonçalo Amaral.

Facts:
1 – Joana Cipriano vanished from a small place 10 km in the outskirts of Portimão. Last time somebody saw her, she was on her way to a local groceries shop;
2 - Her mother, Leonor Cipriano, only reported to Police her daughter has disappeared two days after;
3 – After a long and difficult investigation, headed by Chief-Inspector Gonçalo Amaral, Leonor Cipriano and her brother were accused of murdering the eight years old child;
4 – The body of Joana Cipriano was never found, but samples of her blood were found in her mother refrigerator;
5 – Her mother justified those samples of blood admitting she had beaten Joana, for some reason, she was hurt and she bleeded from her nose;
6 – Leonor Cipriano and her brother, who had a incestuous relationship, were sentenced to 16 years in jail, for the murder of her daughter and niece;
7 – Before the trial, Leonor Cipriano accused five CID officers of beating her, trying to extract a confession. She named the five CID officers, and included Chief-Inspector Gonçalo (”Amaral Lector”, according to British tabloids…);
8 – The Public Prosecutor’s Office opened a criminal investigation and ordered a police line-up, with the CID officers named and accused by Leonor Cipriano of beating her;
9 – The line-up took place with Leonor Cipriano behind a two-way mirror and she couldn’t recognize any of the aggressors;
10 – The Public Prosecutor’s Office magistrate that was in charge of the criminal investigation decided to accuse the five CID officers, but didn’t mentioned, in the accusation sent to the Court, that Leonor Cipriano couldn’t identify any of the aggressors, in the police line-up;
11 – Leonor Cipriano never confessed the murder of her own daughter. Her brother, in a letter written from jail, accused Leonor Cipriano of selling her daughter;
12 – Police is convinced (and the jurors at the trial found enough evidence to pass a verdict of guilty) that Leonor Cipriano and her brother were found, by Joana, having sexual relations, when she came home, back from the groceries shop. As Leonor Cipriano had a lover, at the time, they were afraid she would tell him what she saw;
13 – So, they beat her, in order to frighten her and keep her mouth shut up;
14 – Perhaps accidentally, they beat her so violently that they killed her. So, they decided to get rid of he body and cut it in pieces, keeping some of them in the freezer, while they gave the other pieces to be eaten by pigs (this is what police believes is the strongest possibility, because there was no other trace of Joana Cipriano, unless the blood samples in her mother freezer…)
15 – The body of Joana Cipriano was never found.

Joana’s uncle had contempt for human life*

Leonor and João Cipriano, who have been held on remand for over a year, stood silently and without emotion as they heard prosecutor José Pinheiro outline his case. He described João Cipriano as a man who “has contempt for human life, psychopathic tendencies and difficulty in controlling impulses”. Pinheiro also castigated Joana’s mother for her “emotional instability, insensitivity and disregard for other people’s needs”. Only when Pinheiro announced that he was pressing for a 24-year jail term for both defendants did Leonor show emotion, sobbing uncontrollably.

Pinheiro explained why his team was pressing for such a long sentence. “The defendants’ guilt is heightened by their cold and calculating behaviour after their child’s death, as well as the devious manoeuvres they adopted to conceal the crime,” he said.

The trial included key testimony from Joana’s stepfather, António Leandro, who related that Leonor had confided to him that she had had a sexual relationship with her brother. He also told the court that during this conversation, which took place a few days after Joana’s disappearance, at judicial police headquarters, Leonor had admitted that she and her brother had killed the little girl.

A key element of the prosecution’s case rests on the fact that the couple dismembered the girl’s corpse. António Leandro, confronted with photographs of tools allegedly used by the couple, said he recognised a saw he had kept at home. In the video taped confession, João Cipriano admitted that the body of the girl was dismembered and placed in a refrigerated trunk. A doctor involved in the case, Albino Santana dos Santos, conceded that body parts, matching the size of a girl of Joana’s height, could have been stuffed inside the trunk.

*source for above: http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=10046"

And my final answer to the same poster:

"It’s not quite as you say is it xxxxx? The Press didn’t embellish/adjust, they’ve hidden the truth and defamed Gonçalo Amaral spinning only parts of the Cipriano case. And the reasons that made the British Press to take that stance and maintain a racist editorial guideline is relevant to understand the development of the Maddie case in the Media. The abuse of the press calling a CID Inspector of Pig, Fat, Lazy, Drunk was without a doubt an attempt to undermine Amaral’s reputation and an attack to the Judiciary Portuguese Police. It’s not even ethical in any journalists code to express systematically such biased opinions and sometimes even lies, manipulating the general British public and setting off a war of words between two countries."

Regarding my personal fight as a Portuguese Citizen:

"I, myself felt desperate at times not understanding the reasons behind the support given to the McCanns by the British press and the British authorities, I even felt disgusted and embarrassed with Alípio Ribeiro's attack in the media to the PJ officers handling the case and the Minister of Justice Alberto Costa, support of Alípio after Olegário de Sousa and Gonçalo Amaral were removed from the case for apparently the same exact reasons.

Worst of all, was when we knew that our Prime Minister José Socrates and Gordon Brown talked about this case, and it was obvious then, for most of the Portuguese citizens, that Gordon's implication and pressure in this case could almost undoubtedly mean the McCanns would never be considered guilty.

Sometimes I felt like dropping everything and close my eyes to all the injustice, racism, media attacks but then I found out that I'm very proud of my small and beautiful country and even prouder of our people and history; and though writing a blog and putting my self at risk using my real name I'll keep on defending my country. Unlike others who are in the government and in the right positions to do so but seem to be cowards."

... Força PJ! e obrigada Cláudia

27 de Abril de 2008 19:18

http://proud-of-the-pj.blogspot.com/

merlynsam
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:01 am

Much of what Joana Morais has written about the Cipriano case is taken from Paulo Reis' blog entry on the subject. However, Paulo Reis provided additional information in the comments section of another of his blog entries - which Joana Morais has not included in this summary:

Check more carefully the info you get. Leoneor Ciprinao and his brother, who had an incestuous relationship, were both sentenced to 16 years in prison, for the killing of the child, Joana Cipriano. They killed her, after she came back home earlier and found sister and brother (her mother and her uncle) having sexual relations. They cut the body in pieces, kept a few in the refrigerator, than burned and gave the remains to pigs, to eat (police thinks). Samples of blood of the child, Joana Cipriano, were found inside her mother's refrigerator. Leonor Cipriano accused five CID officers of beating her. They were put on a police line-up and she didn't recognize not even one of the aleged agressors (including Chief-Inspector Gonçalo Amaral). The magistrate of the Public Prosecitor's Office that investigated the complaint of Leonor Cipriano against CID Chief-Inspector Gonçalo Amaral and the other five CID officers and decided to prosecute them, didn't included in the accusation documents the results of the police line-uo (which took place with Leonor Cipriano behind a two-way mirror...). That magistrate is being sued by the Portuguese CID Officers union, and has a complaint with the Conselho Superior da Magistratura ("High Magistrates Council") the body in charge of nominating and disciplining judges and magistrates from the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Paulo Reis
pjcv.reis@gmail.com
July 5, 2007 9:03 PM

http://gazetadigitalarquivo.blogspot.com/2007/07/bernard-alapetite-on-may-3-i-was-in.html

merlynsam
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:02 am

Photography of beaten up Leonor Cipriano can be a Forgery

Leonor Cipriano’s Images are going to be evaluated trough technical computer-assisted image analysis

Photos were probably Forged



The date of the files that are in the process which accuses five elements of the Judiciary Police is of May of 2005, when the alleged aggression took place in October of 2004

Three accused inspectors of the Judiciary Police of torture when they were questioning Leonor Cipriano - condemned by the murder of the daughter - are going to ask an expert evaluation to the photographies that serve as element of proof for the accusation.

The images that show Leonor with the black eyes [panda eyes*] are in a CD and the files have the date of the 9th of May of 2005 - when the alleged aggression would have taken place a year before, in 15th of October of 2004.

According to the accusation, after the interrogation, Leonor was taken by the inspectors to the health centre of Odemira. The police officers say that she threw herself down the staircases, in an attempt to commit suicide.

24horas knows that as soon Leonor Cipriano reached the penitentiary, the director ordered that photos were taken to Cipriano - those were passed to floppy disks and, subsequently, for a CD handed to the Public Ministry.

“I don’t understand how this date appears in the files. I want this to be thoroughly explained. Because the images can have been forged”, says to 24horas the lawyer of three inspectors, Pragal Colaço. “I am going to ask an expert evaluation trough technical computer-assisted image analysis. Even because, the original chip of the photographies isn’t available”.

Accused Inspectors

The inspectors Leonel Marques, Paulo Pereira Cristóvão and Paulo Marques Bom are accused of, on the 14th of October, to have tortured Leonor during an interrogation in the Judiciary Police headquarters of Portimão.
The three were in the Central Direction of Combat Against Banditism, in Lisbon, and had been called to the Algarve to help in the investigation of the disappearance of the eight year old girl Joana - the mysteriously lost girl of the village of Figueira (Portimão).

The coordinator Gonçalo Amaral - who also investigated the case Maddie - is accused in this process of a crime of false testimony and falsification of a document. And the inspector António Cardoso, of a crime of falsification.

Judgement
Five accused inspectors of the Judiciary Police were pronounced for judgement in last February. António Pragal Colaço, accused the judge, Ana Lúcia Cruz, of having taken the decision of bringing the Judiciary Officers to judgement before the debate. The lawyer considers this process to be damaged by "political" circumstances.

Grade
João Grade, Leonor Cipriano’s Lawyer, believes that the decision is going to influence the revision of the process of judgement of Leonor. In April, the lawyer was detained by the GNR in the possession of synthetic drugs; he was arrested carrying 45 doses of amphetamines and a quarter of a tablet of ecstasy while visiting the prison. The lawyer alleged that the suitcase was of a recluse to whom he was doing a favour and that he didn’t know the contents.

Translated by xklamation

Source: 24Horas

tezza
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:51 pm

Articles stating that Joana Cipriano's abduction might be linked to Madeleine's :

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355090,00.html

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=46341&cat=14

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1315666,00.html

'Disturbing Similarities' With Madeleine

tezza
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:39 pm

(Translation)

From the Carriers of Manure (source)



August 28, 2008 - 00:30 am

Faro: inspectors accused of torture by Leonor Cipriano
Jury chosen for September 22

The final selection of jurors for the trial of five inspectors from the Judicial Police accused of torture against Leonor Cipriano - who is fulfilling 16 years in prison for the murder of her daughter Joana - is scheduled for September 22, at the Court in Faro.


The defendants pronounced are the coordinator who led the investigation to the disappearance of Joanna and has already left the PJ, Gonçalo Amaral, and four elements who made up a team from DCCB sent at that time from Lisbon to Faro: Leonel Lopes, Pereira Cristóvão, Marques Bom and Nunes Cardoso.

The ex-coordinator is accused of perjury and omission of complaint. Cardoso is cited for falsification of documents. The other three defendants answer charges of torture.

Pragal Colaço, lawyer of the four members of the team from DCCB, brought an action alleging that "the crime of forgery of document has no penal framework to be tried before a jury." It was he who asked jury, but the court did not separate the cases, arguing that the crime of torture subsumes the others. "It is a legitimate alternate interpretation," admits Antonio Cabrita, lawyer for Gonçalo Amaral.

Pragal Colaço disagrees. "The law says that it does not deal with frivoulous matters. And we risk starting a trial that may be cancelled and undermine the strategy of defense," he argues.

The appeal was delivered in May and referred to Faro to the [Court's] List of Evora on July 14.

DETAILS

TRIAL BY JURY

They are eight (four alternates) who decide based on the facts. The panel of judges interprets the area of law and applies the penalty.

DEFENCE

Pragal Colaço stepped up with two lawyers and says he "will present expertise compromising the evidence for the case and involving institutions."

WITNESS DIED

The coordinator Julio Santos was to have been a witness in the Joana case. He died this month in an accident.

pam supportfromireland
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:47 am

Thanks for this Tezza, the C word comes to mind !

Posted by merlynsam
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:00 am

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The same lawyer who has moved this action against the PJ/ex-PJ personnel (and wants to take Leonor and her incestuous brother to the European human rights court) is Marcos Aragão. He is the lawyer, who by selling interviews to the British press, got money to finance the search of Madeliene's body in the Arade dam. Marcos Aragão said that he had a tip from the underworld (mafia) sent to him by the Metodo3 agency that Madeleine's body was there. Later this was understood to be a hoax when Marcos said that he thought Madeleine was there because he had seen it in a vision.

The other lawyer in this affair is João Grade, who tried to smuggle amphetamines and ecstasy in the Prisoner's Establishment were Leonor Cipriano is. João Grade is now, himself, an arguido.

Posted by pamsupportfromireland
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:30 am

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wow is all I can say Merly.

Posted by merlynsam
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:23 pm

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Correio da Manhã

September 23, 2008

Cipriano case: Jurors selected on October 17

Faro: Inspectors that stand accused of beating Leonor Cipriano go on trial

Jurors known on the 17th of October

The jurors who will judge the five PJ inspectors that stand accused by Leonor Cipriano – who was condemned over the homicide of her daughter Joana – of aggression, forgery of document and omission of denunciation will be chosen on the 17th of October. But the fact that all the accusations are gathered in the same process may delay the start of the trial.

“The law does not allow for the crime of forgery of document to be tried by jurors”, defends António Pragal Colaço, the lawyer of four of the inspectors, “the judge decided to gather all the accusations together, but there is a request at the Appeals Court in Évora that will decide whether that can be done or not”. If the decision is against the joint trial, Pragal Colaço admits that he doesn’t know what will happen. “Maybe it has to start all over again”, he considers.

Yesterday, at the Court in Faro, 18 possible jurors were chosen by draw. On the 17th of October, they will be questioned by the Public Ministry, by Leonor’s lawyer, João Grade, and by the two defense lawyers, Pragal Colaço and António Cabrita. From this group, four jurors and four substitute jurors will emerge.

Pragal Colaço represents inspectors Leonel Lopes, Pereira Cristóvão and Marques Bom (accused of torture), as well as Nunes Cardoso (forgery of documents). The fifth arguido, Gonçalo Amaral (omission of denunciation), is represented by António Cabrita.

Leonor, the mother of Joana, says she was beaten on the 14th of October 2004, during questioning at the PJ in Faro, when her daughter’s disappearance was under investigation.

Details

Separation – António Cabrita considers that the accusations can be tried together, but if they are not, he admits “a separation of the processes”.

Trial – The start of the trial of the five inspectors, according to what CM had reported already, is scheduled for the 24th of October at the Faro Court.

Report – In a report, Marcos Aragão Correia, a lawyer for the Association Against Exclusion Through Development, says he believes that Leonor Cipriano was beaten.

source: Correio da Manhã, 23.09.2008

Translated by astro

Posted by merlynsam
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:41 am

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24Horas

30.09.2008

Former PJ inspector accuses Marinho Pinto of hiding himself

One of the PJ elements that stand accused of beating Joana’s mother wants to see Marinho Pinto at his trial. The Bar wants more lawyers at the police stations in order to avoid cases like that of Leonor Cipriano

The former Polícia Judiciária inspector Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, who is accused by the Public Ministry of beating Leonor Cipriano in order to force her to confess her daughter’s death, defies the head of the Portuguese lawyers’ Bar to become an assistant in the process that will start to be tried in Faro on the 24th.

“It would be a courageous thing to do for Marinho Pinto to become an assistant in the process on a personal level instead of hiding behind the Bar”, Pereira Cristóvão tells 24Horas, adding that he would also have liked to see the present head of the Bar as an assistant in another process, which was archived by the Public Ministry, where suspicions of sexual abuse over Joana Cipriano were being investigated.

“Sperm from an identified individual was detected on the little girl’s underpants, as well as blood, and the process was archived. I would have liked to see Marinho Pinto becoming an assistant on that one, too”, he confesses.

The statements by Pereira Cristóvão – one of the PJ inspectors who investigated Joana’s disappearance – follow a meeting that took place yesterday afternoon, between the Attorney General and the president of the Human Rights Commission of the Bar, José Augusto Rocha.

At the end of the meeting, José Augusto Rocha confirmed that the Bar was made an assistant in a process that “really indicates the practice of abuse and torture”.

He also defended a wider presence of lawyers at the police stations, in order to avoid suspicions of police violence on the arguidos. José Augusto Rocha guarantees that “some complaints” reach the Bar, and that “the existence of such cases is regrettable”.

Desperate for a condemnation

Pereira Cristóvão holds the Head of the Bar responsible over such statements. And he accuses Marinho Pinto of “denying the principle of the presumption of innocence to citizens who have not been tried yet and of presuming the innocence of a person whose sentence has been approved by the Supreme Court”.

Leonor and her brother, João Cipriano, were condemned to 16 years in prison over the crimes of homicide and concealment of a cadaver. Months later, in “Expresso”, Marinho Pinto published an article that was illustrated with a photo of Leonor where she exhibited marks that allegedly resulted from an aggression at the PJ.

The process led to an accusation against five inspectors. Leonel Marques, Pereira Cristóvão and Marques Bom stand accused of torture. António Cardoso has to respond over falsification of a document. And the then coordinator of the PJ in Portimão, Gonçalo Amaral, stands accused of the crimes of false statement and omission of denunciation.

In a statement to 24Horeas, Pereira Cristóvão doesn’t spare the present head of the Bar: “He is desperate for a condemnation and he doesn’t even know what the issue is in this process”.

Translated by astro

http://www.24horasnewspaper.com/total.php?numero=2957&link=12