Alvito: Couple stole uninhabited residences. They were sentenced to prison terms.
A couple living in Lisbon that between 1 October and 1 November 2015 He devoted himself to steal homes, who knew uninhabited, I Vila Nova de Baronia, municipality of Alvito, He was sentenced to imprisonment.
Initially accused of three crimes of robbery, husband and wife were sentenced by a qualified crime of theft, in 2 years and 6 months in prison and a simple swipe of the crime 9 months in prison, Having been sentenced to legal height 2 years and 10 month suspended sentence for the same period.
John and Alexandra Sedge, him 54 and she 51 year old, They stole several ancient objects residences, as cadeeiros, towel rails, Dishwasher parts, statuettes and paintings, no value 704 euros, which subsequently sold.
In the last of the assaults they were caught red-handed by the military of the GNR of Alvito, what later could turn to previous assaults, to have caught other stolen objects in their possession.
The couple settled in Vila roe Baronia, in a friend's house and after realizing to persons of the population that the owners of the residences lived elsewhere and only moved there in seasonal periods, They crashed the locks or locks the doors and introduced us spaces, who then plundered.
The couple try to avoid asking the trial opening instructory the decision process, raising the defendants "the irremediable nullity of the house search" made by the GNR and also the "lack of legitimacy in the criminal prosecution", but the Court of Justice of Cuba, He did not answer the argument and it was decided to pronunciation for trial, ending them sentenced to prison terms.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
