Beja/ Cuba: Prosecutor asks effective penalty of jail for defendants of the two crimes of murder, of attempted form.
The Public Prosecutor (MP) asks “effective prison sentence”, without specifying how many years, for the two defendants dual degree murder, of attempted form, occurred on a hill near Cuba, the night of the last day 2 February.
Striking Antonio, He argued that the two men acted in concert and that the evidence taken in court sustains both had revenge feelings in different victims.
Without specifying the years of closure, the prosecutor defended “the imprisonment” António Lopes, 44 year old, and Luis Raposo, 30 year old, accused of committing co-authored two first degree murder of attempted form. Lopes is even accused of a crime of domestic violence and Raposo of a crime of violation of prohibition.
The case happened on the night of 2 February of this year, on Mount Acacio, about what 4 kilometers of Cuba, when the ex-partner (António Lopes) Elsa Bautista, 28 year old, stabbed this, having first attacked the man with whom she lived, António Raposo, 41 year old (brother of Luis Raposo).
Although no one has assumed, despite the insistence of the Collective of Judges and Public Prosecutor, a passionate trilogy or cross love relationships, involving five people, victims, the accused and the wife of one of these, will be at the origin of the assassination attempts of man and woman, according to the testimony produced before the Court of Beja.
Luis Raposo hath uncovered his brother (António Raposo) get involved with a woman and knowing that António Lopes sought to ex-partner (Elsa Bautista) to get revenge for this to have left, They have solid motivations for the defendants if they ally carry out crimes.
In closing arguments, lawyers for the defendants divergent. The defender Antonio Lopes, defends the acquittal of his client with regard to crimes of domestic violence and attempted homicide form of Antonio Raposo, assuming that in the case of former teammate the defendant confirmed that the “chinou”, wounded with a knife, but that was another defendant who was “behind the crime”.
As for Luis Raposo, his lawyer explained that “there was no agreement” between the two defendants, looking disassemble the charge “co-authors”, arguing that it should be acquitted. The left causÃdica “pass over in silence” (without speaking), charges of violation of prohibition, since Louis, na data dos crimes, It was prohibited by the court to drive any car.
António Raposo, He is in custody in Prison Beja Regional since the afternoon 3 Feb., the day after the crimes have been committed, while Luis Raposo, He lodged at the prison more than nine and a half months after the fact and one week after the start of the trial, depoismento after the first of the three companions who ever had.
The reading of the judgment is scheduled for next week before the Court of Beja County.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist
