The Public Ministry (MP) de Beja accused a man of 48 year old, of domestic violence crimes, in the consummated form and qualified homicide, the attempted form, committed against his ex-partner, with whom he had two children, a girl of 24 years and a boy of 18 year old.
Before the end of the relationship, which occurred at the end of 2021, the defendant verbally and physically assaulted his partner in front of their children and after the woman had ended the relationship, started using cell phone messages to threaten the victim with death. Despite the aggressor and victim having lived in different homes,, they were quite close.
According to the charge order that the Lidador News (LN) We had access, The attempted murder occurred around 02,20 hours 25 June last year, with the defendant waiting for the woman and when she was going home, a building located in Largo da Estação Railway, in Beja, stabbed several times, having punctured the left lung, victim's chest and head.
While being hit, the woman screamed for help, Carlos Valente, former PSP agent, who works as a security guard at the train station, rescued the woman and made the attacker flee. Given the very serious condition of the victim, the former police officer transported her in his vehicle to the Emergency Department of Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja, having entered directly into the Operating Room where she underwent a surgical intervention, which was decisive in preventing his death.
After the attack, the individual left the city, with the PSP taking care of the incident, and with the aggressor duly identified, given the type of crime, the Judiciary Police was called (PJ) de Faro. After a wait, when the man returned home, cerca the 18,00 hours of that day, was arrested by the PJ.
The attacker, kind of like very confrontational, given the addiction to drinking, worked as a gardener at the Air Force Base (BA) 11, in Beja and had as a seasonal occupation the sale of verdemãos, a small fish used by fishermen as bait for fishing for largemouth bass.
Present to a Criminal Investigation Judge of the Beja Court, preventive detention was decreed as a measure of coercion, currently awaiting trial at the Beja Prison.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
