JOANA CIPRIANO - Aged 8 years - Figueira (Portugal)

Correio da Manhã

17.01.2009

by Gonçalo Amaral

Joana died...

There is only one truth in that statement, Joana died, the rest is another pack of lies.

Four years ago, a child was murdered at the hands of her mother and her uncle. Her crime was surprising them during sexual activity. Her name was Joana, and apart from being neglected by her mother, she was a victim of sexual abuse.

Yesterday, her mother, who was judicially declared responsible for her death, signed a statement at the Prison of Odemira where she confirms said death, and attributes the responsibility solely to her brother.

There is only one truth in that statement, Joana died, the rest is another pack of lies from a person who was declared a social psychopath and who has been lying to Justice since the first moment.

Contrary to other murdered children, those responsible were taken before justice and condemned over the heinous crime.

For Joanas mother, its not enough to beg for forgiveness, she should stop lying and tell the truth. That will be the moment of true redemption and then Joanas soul will rest in peace.

Joana suffered throughout her life, and at the time of her violent death it wasnt possible to avoid such sacrifices, but we contributed to the fulfilment of justice.

This and other cases make us feel proud about having been policemen, to be able to look into the sky and to say: by the grace of God I was a policeman.

Source: Correio da Manhã, 17.01.2009

Translated by astro: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/

Jornal de Notícias

17.01.2009

by Marisa Rodrigues

Leonor tells everything about Joana’s death

Confession written by the lawyer and signed by Leonor was delivered to the Public Ministry

Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer delivered to the Public Ministry, this Friday, a confession that was signed by Leonor Cipriano, in which she reports the circumstances under which her daughter Joana, aged eight, was supposedly murdered by her uncle, in 2004.

According to the confession, Leonor Cipriano and her brother, João, agreed to sell Joana to a childless couple. The promised money wasn’t delivered. The child realised what was happening and protested. The uncle killed her with slaps to her face and buried the body “up in the hills of Fugueira” (Portimão), in a location that she didn’t reveal and referred towards her brother.

The document, which was written by the lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, and signed by Leonor, was delivered to the Public Ministry in Faro yesterday [Friday], hours before the start of the eighth session of the trial of the five Polícia Judiciária (PJ) investigators. The confession is eight pages long, written on the day before yesterday [Thursday], at the Prison of Odemira, where Leonor is serving the 16 years sentence that she was convicted to, for the homicide and the concealment of the cadaver of her daughter, in co-authorship with her brother.

Marcos Aragão asserts that he wrote “exactly” what the inmate dictated him. “During the visit I sensed that she had something to tell me and I pressured her. That was when she started crying and ended up confessing what had really happened”, he said yesterday [Friday], after delivering a copy of the manuscript to the journalists.

“She can hardly write, but she read everything, agreed and signed”, he said, to justify the fact that the document had been written by him. He decided to deliver the statement because he wants “the body to be found so the child can finally have a decent funeral” and also “for this couple that is mentioned to be investigated, because they could have done the same with another child”, in a clear reference to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

This new version caught Leandro Silva, Leonor’s former partner, by surprise. “I had never heard this story. It’s the first time”, he revealed to JN. He added that it was only yesterday [Friday] that Aragão Correia told him what happened. They were both present at the Public Ministry in Faro, where Leandro was heard in the context of the complaint that he filed against Gonçalo Amaral over aggressions that he says he also suffered at the PJ in Faro.

What happened in the courtroom where the trial of the PJ inspectors in the alleged case of torture of Leonor Cipriano is taking place, ended up being relegated to the background. The session was used merely to avoid the interruption of the production of evidence, which would imply an annulment.

The judge read the deposition made by Marques Vidal, a counsel judge and a former national director of the PJ. A defence witness, he spared the arguidos no praise, classifying them as “serious”, “committed” and of “high level”. During the next session, the director of the Prison of Odemira, Ana Calado, against whom the General Directory of Prison Services has filed a process, will be heard.

At the origin of the inquiry were statements made by António Maia. The former chief of prison guards accused the head of the prison of suggesting the change of a service information sheet that concerned the state in which Leonor was in when she returned to the prison after the interrogation at the PJ.

Original source: Jornal de Notícias, 17.01.2009

Translated by astro :

Joana Morais

January 18, 2009

Translation of Leonor Cipriano's Statement

Statement

I the undersigned Leonor Maria Domingos Cipriano, inmate number 34 at the Prison of Odemira, today the 15th of January 2009, confess and swear that this is the entire truth that I know about the disappearance of my daughter Joana Isabel Cipriano Guerreiro – that my brother João Manuel Domingos Cipriano convinced me on the day that he arrived at my house in Figueira (in the early morning of the 12th of September 2004) that I had no financial conditions to care for three children, that they would become miserable persons like myself, without a future and without money and without an education. That he knew a couple that couldn’t have children and that he thought they could be a new family at least for Joana, as Laura and Ruben were too small and everyone would suspect if one of them went missing. About Joana they could say that she was abducted, that Joana would be well cared for, by a family that would give her everything, as they had money that he knew them and guaranteed that they were trustworthy, that they would never hurt Joana, that they only wanted a daughter that they couldn’t have. That Joana would be taken abroad and that I could never see her again personally, but that they would do everything to send me news about her and even send some photos of her when she would be grown. That he (João Cipriano) was my brother and that I could trust him, because he also wanted the best for Joana. That they had to invent a story for Joana’s disappearance, because lawfully I couldn’t give Joana away to this couple as an adoptive daughter in this manner, because the law of Portugal didn’t allow it. But that I shouldn’t worry, because Joana would be very well cared for and it would be the best for her future. At the beginning I refused, but he insisted so much that he managed to make me believe that what he was saying was truly the best for my children. That I would receive a financial help so I could look properly after my two youngest children (Laura and Ruben). That everything would be fine, he would talk to Joana to explain to her what was going to happen, everything had been agreed already. I believed and trusted my brother João Cipriano. He arrived on the 12th for that purpose already. I never met any of the persons that he told me would take Joana abroad. But he always asserted me that they were trustworthy and that he would put his hands into the fire for them. He arranged everything for 8 p.m. Then he asked me to fetch Joana shortly after 6 p.m. from the house of my mother-in-law, Maria de Lurdes David. I went, took Joana home and in front of me he told her that she would have a good surprise on that day, because she was about to go on a great trip. Joana was happy, she wanted to know more, but he didn’t reveal a lot of details to her, that she would find out later. My younger children were playing but they didn’t hear anything, because they were in the living room but further away from us. At 8 p.m. I sent Joana to do the shopping at Pastelaria Célia. As soon as Joana left, João placed some of her clothes in a plastic bag, and never returned either with the bag or with Joana. I knew that he was going to deliver Joana to that couple as soon as she returned home from the shopping, but without entering the house. João told me that we both should make believe that Joana had been abducted by strangers. It was only one and a half hours later that I saw João Cipriano again, but he arrived without money, the money that he told me the couple would give me to help my younger children. I asked him what had happened. At the beginning he didn’t answer me, he only said that everything had gone well. It was only later that I saw blood on the lower part of his trousers. I was alarmed. I asked him about Joana. Then he told me that things had not gone well. That the “guys” (citation) didn’t have the money. That Joana knew about everything already, that he had told her that she was going to spend holidays in Spain with a couple that were his friends. That she then heard the verbal fight between him (João) and the “guys” and realised that she was “going for good”. That they didn’t take her because he didn’t give her away because there was no money. That he sent the “guys” away and the Joana started to say that she was going to tell everything. That he slapped her in the face. That she protested even more. That he slapped her again, but she wouldn’t shut up. That he lost control and the girl had died. That the body was hidden for him to dispose of it later. I panicked. But he told me it was no use anymore, that if someone heard me we would both go to jail, because we were both into it. I screamed at him that I didn’t kill Joana, he replied that if I didn’t kill her at least I wanted to sell her. After a big verbal fight, I agreed to say nothing. Later on, he told me that he had buried the body “up in the hills of Figueira”. I was scared. I cried very hard for my daughter. I prayed for her. I know that I didn’t kill her. But I was afraid of being arrested because I tried to sell Joana. I only wanted the best for her. But people might not understand. I decided since then that I never went through any of that, and that I would always say that I didn’t know anything, just like my murderous brother said that he would do. I couldn’t bring Joana back anymore. When I was spanked by the Polícia Judiciária, which is true that I was just like I said at the Court in Faro, I signed what they wanted me to sign, I didn’t even read what it was. I never said anything, I just said what they wanted, what they wrote, which I only found out later what it was. I didn’t kill Joana. Mr Gonçalo Amaral knows that, then why did he order them to spank me? Why? Why am I in prison for the murder of my daughter Joana? Why? I didn’t kill her! Who killed her (…)

Translated by Astro: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/

January 18, 2009

Leonor tells everything about Joanas death


Confession written by the lawyer and signed by Leonor was delivered to the Public Ministry

by Marisa Rodrigues

Leonor Ciprianos lawyer delivered to the Public Ministry, this Friday, a confession that was signed by Leonor Cipriano, in which she reports the circumstances under which her daughter Joana, aged eight, was supposedly murdered by her uncle, in 2004.

According to the confession, Leonor Cipriano and her brother, João, agreed to sell Joana to a childless couple. The promised money wasnt delivered. The child realised what was happening and protested. The uncle killed her with slaps to her face and buried the body up in the hills of Fugueira (Portimão), in a location that she didnt reveal and referred towards her brother.

The document, which was written by the lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, and signed by Leonor, was delivered to the Public Ministry in Faro yesterday [Friday], hours before the start of the eighth session of the trial of the five Polícia Judiciária (PJ) investigators. The confession is eight pages long, written on the day before yesterday [Thursday], at the Prison of Odemira, where Leonor is serving the 16 years sentence that she was convicted to, for the homicide and the concealment of the cadaver of her daughter, in co-authorship with her brother.

Marcos Aragão asserts that he wrote exactly what the inmate dictated him.
During the visit I sensed that she had something to tell me and I pressured her. That was when she started crying and ended up confessing what had really happened, he said yesterday [Friday], after delivering a copy of the manuscript to the journalists.

She can hardly write, but she read everything, agreed and signed, he said, to justify the fact that the document had been written by him. He decided to deliver the statement because he wants the body to be found so the child can finally have a decent funeral and also for this couple that is mentioned to be investigated, because they could have done the same with another child, in a clear reference to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.



she is with WS RS they wanted a child


portugal smugller the beginning of the end


two people who took her will return the child forgive them punish the man they paid




This new version caught Leandro Silva, Leonors former partner, by surprise. I had never heard this story. Its the first time, he revealed to JN.

He added that it was only yesterday [Friday] that Aragão Correia told him what happened. They were both present at the Public Ministry in Faro, where Leandro was heard in the context of the complaint that he filed against Gonçalo Amaral over aggressions that he says he also suffered at the PJ in Faro.

What happened in the courtroom where the trial of the PJ inspectors in the alleged case of torture of Leonor Cipriano is taking place, ended up being relegated to the background. The session was used merely to avoid the interruption of the production of evidence, which would imply an annulment.

The judge read the deposition made by Marques Vidal, a counsel judge and a former national director of the PJ. A defence witness, he spared the arguidos no praise, classifying them as serious committed and of high level.

During the next session, the director of the Prison of Odemira, Ana Calado, against whom the General Directory of Prison Services has filed a process, will be heard.

At the origin of the inquiry were statements made by António Maia. The former chief of prison guards accused the head of the prison of suggesting the change of a service information sheet that concerned the state in which Leonor was in when she returned to the prison after the interrogation at the PJ.


source: Jornal de Notícias, 17.01.2009

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By Astro

21 January 2009

Appeal for "a dignified funeral" for Joana

PJ inspectors who investigated the case want to find the body

After Leonor Cipriano admitted that her daughter is dead and buried "in the hills of Figueira", Pereira Cristóvão and his colleagues appeal for the precise location to be revealed

by Miguel Marujo

The Portuguese society owes little Joana a final gesture: "To find her body and to give her a dignified funeral". The appeal is made by Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, a former Polícia Judiciária inspector who was involved in the case investigation, now that Leonor Cipriano, Joana's mother, confessed that the eight-year-old child was killed and buried "up in the hills of Figueira".

The idea for this appeal was "born from the moment when, for the first time in four years, Leonor Cipriano admitted what the investigation concluded" at that time, Pereira Cristóvão explains to 24Horas.

The former inspector, who authored a book about the case, is accompanied in this willingness by his colleagues who were on location investigating the case in 2004, Marques Bom, Leonel Marques and Gonçalo Amaral.

Last Friday, Leonor Cipriano's lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, publicised a written confession in which Joana's mother admitted that her brother, João, killed the child with slaps in the face and then buried her.

"Now we have the assumption of a death, even if imputed on the brother, but what is important is to find what's left of Joana's body, in order to give her a funeral", says Pereira Cristóvão.

In order for this to happen, there is only one way: "The media themselves have to start raising the issue, to awaken a collective will to exert pressure. Maybe this will prompt another letter in which she [Leonor] says something more", the former inspector ironises.

An appeal made as citizens, not as policemen

Pereira Cristóvão insists on stressing that what motivates them is not revenge over Leonor's accusation of alleged torture, when she was arrested in September 2004, which is presently on trial. And that they do this as citizens, he and his colleagues, not as policemen.

"This has nothing to do with the process, or with the accusations. What moves me, what motivates us, is an issue of humanity. We owe this to that child, all of us, as a society, have misbehaved. We owe this last great favour to Joana", explains the author of "A Estrela de Joana".

For the time being, the police authorities can't do anything, Pereira Cristóvão explains. "The police can only act within a criminal process" and Joana's homicide has already been tried. "Until then, until we know where the body is, it will be us who have to exert pressure."

The court accepted that the case had been proved and condemned Leonor and João Cipriano over the child's death. But the body was never found.

In the written confession that the mother has now made public, through her lawyer, Leonor says that only her brother João knows the precise location where the mortal remains rest.

Leonor still has to say where the body is located

It's almost impossible to find the location where Joana Cipriano's body was buried unless her uncle or her mother inform about it, admits Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, who participated in the investigations into the disappearance of the little girl in 2004.

According to the former PJ inspector, Leonor Cipriano "is giving a signal" by indicating that Joana's burial place is located "up in the hills of Figueira", in Portimão. But this indication is insufficient.

"It's endless kilometres, back at the time we searched it all, wells and water mills, some were out of use, even with divers. But it's impossible to search 40 or 50 square kilometres, there are no human and technical means to do that", Pereira Cristóvão explains to 24Horas.

If the Polícia Judiciária decided to search the terrain thoroughly now, those would be mere "tourist tours of Figueira". The authorities "have no matter to open a search process". For the time being, "it doesn't fit the police procedures". Furthermore, "there are no means" to carry out that possible search.

No dates for the project

Only if Leonor Cipriano "talks about a specific location can the police means act immediately".

Therefore, the four inspectors who wish to carry out a dignified funeral for Joana don't advance a deadline for their initiative. It will depend on Leonor - or her brother, João - to pinpoint the exact location where the little girl's body was buried, "in the immensity of the hills of Figueira", as Pereira Cristóvão describes it.


Source: 24 Horas, 21.01.2009



By Astro
Thanks Joana & Asto

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Correio da Manha

24 January 2009

Lawyer Leonor saw the suspension of the order lifted but has opened disciplinary proceedings

Aragon threat judge Pavão

The suspension of the lawyer for Leonor Cipriano, introduced by the Bar Association, was lifted yesterday after Aragão Correia notified the District Council of Madeira of his new address.

But, the CM found that the Council of Ethics of Funchal opened disciplinary proceedings due to acts committed in cases Maddie and Joana. Aragão Correia, argues that in the Leonor process of the alleged assault of PJ, assumed that the CM was notified of the investigation that is being targeted, but believes that "the process may not result in anything."

After being expelled from the courtroom at the Court of Faro, the lawyer threatened the judge president Henrique Pavão that he will reveal his "dangerous liaison" with António Cabrita, the lawyer of the accused Gonçalo Amaral. Such information is part of a complaint sent yesterday by Aragão Correia to the Supreme Judicial Council.

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/default.aspx

Sol

28.01.2009

Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer wants searches‭ "at an abandoned house"

Today,‭ ‬Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer has requested the GNR to carry out searches at‭ “‬an abandoned house up in the hills of Figueira‭”‬,‭ ‬Portimão,‭ ‬where Joana’s mother confessed that João Cipriano buried the little girl’s body

In a formal request that was sent to the Portimão Headquarters of GNR,‭ ‬which Lusa had access to,‭ ‬Marcos Aragão Correia communicated that Leonor Cipriano told him on Tuesday,‭ ‬at the Prison of Odemira,‭ ‬that‭ “‬murderer João Cipriano told her that he had buried the body in the hills of Figueira‭” ‬at‭ “‬an abandoned house‭”‬.

Joana’s mother’s representative in the process of the alleged aggressions‭ that involves current and former Polícia Judiciária inspectors, to obtain a confession from Leonor Cipriano, stressed in the letter that his client "guarantees" the statements made by her brother and the child's uncle "in those days" that followed the disappearance.

‭"[Leonor Cipriano] remembers that (...) he mentioned an abandoned house, although she cannot remember the specific circumstances under which the homicide did so, whether in the presence of a third party or not, and whether referring to the concealment of the little girl's cadaver or not", the lawyer underlined in the letter that was sent to the GNR by fax.

The little girl, then eight, disappeared from the village of Figueira, Portimão, Algarve, on the 12th of September of 2004, and the Supreme Court of Justice condemned ‭Leonor Cipriano and João Cipriano (siblings) to 16 years in prison each, for the crimes of homicide and concealment of the child's body.

‭Following the interrogations in the "Joana case" that were carried out at the PJ in Faro, three inspectors stand accused of the crime of torture, one stands accused of failing to assist and omitting a denunciation, and a fifth one stands accused of forgery of a document.

‭In one of the most recent trial sessions, at the Court of Faro, Leonor Cipriano altered her statement and attributed the little girl's death to her uncle, João Cipriano, who said he convinced her to hand her daughter over to a family, in exchange for financial compensation.

‭The next session of the trial over the alleged aggressions against Leonor Cipriano by Polícia Judiciária inspectors is scheduled for the 20th of February.

‭source: Sol, 28.01.2009: http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Sociedade/Interior.aspx?content_id=124527

Translated by astro: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/01/leonor-ciprianos-lawyer-wants-searches.html

Correio da Manha

29 January 2009

Cipriano Case: Mystic lawyer requests searches

Leonor Cipriano's Lawyer, sent a fax to the GNR of Portimão in the late afternoon of yesterday, calling for searches to be done in "an abandoned house up there, in the mountains of Figueira," where the mother of Joana [convicted for murdering Joana] says that her brother João Cipriano buried the the corpse of the eight year old girl.

Leonor and João were sentenced for the murder of Joana.

The GNR informed the lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia that he should have sent the fax to the Judiciary Police, however they communicated the transmission of the fax to the department of the PJ in Portimão.

Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of PJ responsible for the investigation, assured to the CM that all old and abandoned houses in the north area of Figueira were target of searches, including one that was at the time indicated by [the murderer] Leonor Cipriano.

Source: Correio da Manhã http://www.correiomanha.pt/noticia.aspx?contentid=FB2756E2-E3AC-4E55-BE3A-4C876309DD5A&channelid=00000010-0000-0000-0000-000000000010

Translated by Joana Morais: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/01/cipriano-case-mystic-lawyer-requests.html

January 31st 2009

Marcos Aragão Correia digging his own hole?

Leonor Cipriano's Lawyer searches for Joana's corpse, murdered by her mother Leonor Cipriano and uncle, João Cipriano



Aragão Correia sent a fax last week to the GNR of Portimão where he requested for the authorities to search in an area pointed out by Leonor Cipriano as the place where her brother João had buried the eight year old girl's body.

Leonor last Tuesday, at the Odemira prison changed again the version of the events surrounding her daughter's murder; she affirmed that "the assassin João Cipriano told her that he had buried the girl's body in the hills of Figueira" in an "abandoned house".

The representative of the mother of Joana in the alleged assault involving current and former inspectors of the Judiciary Police, to obtain a confession from Leonor Cipriano - though Leonor had signed the confession previously to the alleged date of the assault - stressed in that letter that its constituent 'guarantees' the statements of her brother [and uncle of the girl] in those days "which succeeded the disappearance [September 2004].

[Leonor Cipriano] recalls that it was mentioned by the same (...) an abandoned house, although she does not remember the specific circumstances in which the murderer did what he did, nor if it was in the presence of others or not, and if he was referring to concealment of the body of the girl or not."

João Cipriano has already stated that it's all a lie.

The area and houses mentioned by Leonor according to the PJ were thoroughly searched and nothing was found.

Even so, according to Correio da Manhã Marcos Aragão Correia and an unnamed friend, along with "a labrador dog trained to hunt" took the private initiative of digging a few holes with a hoe and a shovel in some of the abandoned houses in the hills on the Northern area of Figueira.

Nothing was found.

By Joana Morais: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/01/marcos-aragao-correia-digging-his-own.html

24horas

05 February 2009

Text: Luis Maneta

Failure to find a dog for Joana

Lawyer for Leonor Cipriano says the search is stalled

Marcos Aragão Correia says that there are no sniffer dogs in Portugal trained to detect cadaver odour. He therefore requests that one be brought, as in the Maddie case.

The lawyer and the family of Leonor Cipriano are unable to find a dog trained to detect cadaver odour. The idea was to use the animal to conduct searches in the mountains of Figueira, where the body of Joana is supposed to be buried. But the "mission" is likely to sink underwater due to the lack of a specialist dog, like those who came from England to participate in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

"The best we were able to find are search and rescue dogs, used to rescue people alive and which, therefore, are not adequate to recover the body of Joana Cipriano," Leonor's lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia told 24horas.

In a meeting with the lawyer in Odemira prison, Leonor Cipriano recalled that her brother had confessed that he had buried the body near an abandoned house, "there, at the top, next to the mountains of Figueira". The ground has already been inspected by Marcos Aragão Correia and the family of Joana. Without success. "It is not worth going back without the help of a dog trained for this purpose," said the lawyer.

"The courts were convinced that there was a crime, in which Joana was murdered. It is a great inhumanity that they will not provide a decent funeral for the girl," he says.

According to Marcos Aragão Correia, the searches already carried out have been limited to one of the five houses, in ruins, in the area. "We need to look at all of them. In the Maddie case a dog was brought from England to try to find evidence against the parents. Why not do it now to locate the body of Joana?" He asks.

MP archives confession

The Public Ministry have decided to archive the letter in which Leonor Cipriano accused her brother of having killed her daughter, 24horas found out through a source connected to the process.

In the letter, Leonor claimed to have been "convinced" by João Cipriano to surrender the girl to a "couple that could not have children," in return for a "financial reward". In this version, things would have gone awry. And João would have assaulted the girl, to death.

The confession was made on January 15 and delivered by Marcos Aragão Correia to the MP. "The decision to archive is no surprise," said the lawyer. Leonor and her brother are serving a sentence of 16 years in prison for the murder of Joana.

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A133jt/24horasFeb53064/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http://www.yudu.com/item/details/33360/24horas---Feb-5---3064 (pages 8-9)

Lisbon, Feb 18 (Lusa) - The lawyer for Leonor Cipriano, Marcos Aragão Correia, today requested the removal of the judge-president of the trial of the PJ inspectors accused of torture, arguing that the behavior of the judge indicates bias.

In application to the Court of Appeal in Évora, the Lusa agency that had access, defense of Leonor Cipriano claims that, during the trial, which started on 24 October the Court of Faro, "several of the judge-president ducts become indicate a possible lack of impartiality against "the mother of the girl disappeared in September 2004" and in favor of defendants. "



Stressing "the impartiality and independence of other judges of the collective," the appropriate body referred to above, signed by the lawyer for Leonor Cipriano, Marcos Aragão Correia, realized that "Henry Peacock has inevitably affected the production of proof of claim, removing it almost completely. "

Emphasizes the lawyer's objection to Gonçalo Amaral, Leonel Morgado and Paulo Marques Pereira Christopher, former inspectors of the PJ and Paulo Marques Bom and Antonio Cardoso, still active in that "all defendants will be acquitted of all crimes" that are Henry is accused Pavão continue as Chairman of the group of judges, composed by two other judges.

Aragon Correia noted that the judge granted only one-chairman of the 40 applications received "to date" (hearing the director of the prison of Odemira where Leonor Cipriano sentence) and rejecting all others, including one about the fact that former PJ and current officials of carrying firearms to the hearing of trial.

The application was lodged on 17 October, before the trial sessions, and after November 18, referring to the incident, refused today delivered only at the hearing on January 16 the judge-president made the order of dismissal, " arguing so amazing and incredible that all the defendants showed an excellent behavior and ethical conduct "for all audiences.

"Doing great praise to the defendants, Judge-lost Mr. President Henrique Pavão immense credit towards impartiality that is legally binding, it is stressed in the application, which refers also to the refusal of the Bar examination of the Coast, who was inspector Chief of the PJ for 30 years, currently professor in the field of criminology.


The defense of Leonor Cipriano believes that "Henry Peacock dismissed without any plausible explanation the testimony of the witness" and notes that the magistrate "delay the decision on the majority of applications" made by Marcos Aragão Correia, still recovering from the episode suspension the cause list, the Jan. 22, for determination of the Bar (OA).

After lifting the suspension, having been communicated to the current address of OA Aragão Correia, "Henry Peacock should not even see the documents" and showed "lack of urbanity extrama, preventing him" to intervene in the trial hearing ".

The application still shows evidence of alleged impartiality of Henry Peacock in a case involving a journalist who witnessed the judge "unlawfully favored so absolutely striking the opposing party."

The Court of Appeal in Évora now has 30 days to rule on the incident to excuse the judge-president of the process of aggressions against Leonor Cipriano alleged by inspectors of the PJ, three accused of crime of torture, one of not having provided aid and omission of the complaint and a fifth accused of falsifying a document.


The Joana case "dates back to September 12th 2004, day when the girl, then eight years old, disappeared from the village of Figueiró, Portimão, the mother, Leonor Cipriano, and uncle, John Cipriano, was sentenced to a penalty 16 years each in prison for the crimes of qualified homicide and concealment of corpse.

http://aeiou.expresso.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=ex.stories/498478

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2009 Mar 20

by Duarte Levy

Court of Appeal judge retains the Leonor Cipriano case

Marcos Aragão Correia the lawyer who "works" with the Metodo 3.

Lawyer says that no prophet will be in the coming sessions of the trial of the PJ inspectors.

Marcos Aragão Correia, lawyer for Leonor Cipriano, confirmed this afternoon that the Court of Appeal in Évora refused the removal of the judge-president of the trial of the inspectors of police accused of assault.

Aragon Correia Pavão Henry accused the judge of "bias" in the process after he had been forced to leave the Faro court room following his suspension by the Bar. The lawyer also criticized the fact that the courts have refused about 40 requests of his clients, almost all were made outside the legal deadline.

According to the lawyer, the decision was based for "primarily in response" to the investigation of the judge in denying the "expulsion of the lawyer at the hearing on January 22." The representative of Leonor Cipriano, condemned the death of a child missing in September 2004 in the Algarve, said that Henry Peacock found that the testimony presented at the incident, the excuse given on February 18 "only sought revenge because they had been "pay for it," position, Aragão Correia said, "you desembargador judge accepted without reservation," criticizing the lack of any evidence obtained.

"I will continue to represent Leonor Cipriano in this trial, in writing. E appear, without reserve, in the final hearing for final argument, "the agency Lusa said the lawyer stating that, given the decision of the Statement of Évora, which admits no appeal, he will attend the next sessions of the trial of current and ex - inspectors of the PJ, which resumes Tuesday at the Court of Faro.

The case brought by Leonor Cipriano against current and former officials of the PJ - three accused of crime of torture, one of not having provided aid and omission of denunciation and a fifth accused of falsifying a document - began to be tried in September 2008 and has been the scene of numerous "surprises" which remains whether the Bar Association can continue as his assistant thus bastonário to be heard as a witness in the case of photos of the alleged assaults.

The defense of one of the defendants in the trial, sent to the Court of Appeal in Évora an appeal to revoke the decision that allowed the Bar Association and also was assistant to the order of dismissal for the bastonário, Marino Pinto, respondent was under process because it has a deep knowledge of the facts, "which is well reflected by the content of the news that published in the Official Express in February 2005 and where the photos were published whose authenticity is not proven at a time when the process was still in secrecy of justice.
After the disappearance of Joana on 12 September 2004, the mother, Leonor Cipriano, and uncle, John Cipriano, were accused and sentenced to 16 years imprisonment each for the crimes of qualified homicide and concealment of corpse.

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Joana Morais

February 20, 2009

Trial Update: Leonor Cipriano & Marcos Aragão & Lawyers Association & MP versus PJ

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/02/trial-update-leonor-cipriano-marcos.html

Correio da Manha

24 March 2009

Leonor’s lesions raise doubts

Former PJ inspectors’ trial ends on the 22nd of April

Yesterday’s session, the 12th, which Leonor’s lawyer, Aragão Correia, didn’t attend, was used to hear Teresa Magalhães, an expert at the National Institute for Forensics Medicine [Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal] (INML). The medic defended that Leonor’s lesions, based on the photographs that she analysed, “are not caused by a fall from stairs” because “the pattern doesn’t suggest that”, no “cuts” were visible and one cannot see lesions “on the elbows or feet”. The Director of the Northern delegation of the INML, who believes that the lesions were caused “on at least two different moments”, still admitted that the photos “are not of good quality”.

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-03-24T23%3A59%3A59%2B00%3A00&updated-min=2009-03-24T00%3A00%3A00%2B00%3A00

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March 29, 2009 • 7:14 am

Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer abandoned complaint at European Court

http://duartelevyen.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/leonor-cipriano%E2%80%99s-lawyer-abandoned-complaint-at-european-court/

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