Sohail Abbasi, a Pakistani citizen, of 41 year old, was sentenced this Friday afternoon by a group of Judges from the Court of Beja to a prison sentence of 5 years and 6 months, for the attempted murder with a knife of his compatriot Muhammad Chema, he too with 41 year old.
In addition to the prison sentence, the defendant was also ordered to pay 5.000 euros of compensation to the victim and 27.329,51 euros to Hospital de Beja as expenses for Chema's treatment, remaining in pre-trial detention awaiting the final and unappealable decision.
The defendant came to trial accused of a crime of qualified homicide in the attempted form, but when reading the ruling, the presiding judge considered that he would be convicted of the same type of crime, but simply, because they considered that “there was no premeditation” on the part of Abbasi in committing the crime.
Although the penal framework is lower and allows for a sentence that could be suspended during its execution, the judge recalled that the defendant “intended to kill the victim”, and that during the trial “he demonstrated a violent personality and lack of repentance”, hence the penalty is effective imprisonment.
The case occurred on the night of 20 August last year at Monte das Alcaçarias de Cima, in the parish of Our Lady of the Snows, in Beja county, when the two men who shared the house with other citizens of Pakistan, all being agricultural workers, they were involved in a physical confrontation, caused by alcohol intake.
Sohail Abbasi wielded a kitchen knife with 15 centimeters of blade and delivered five blows to the victim that did not cause his death due to the medical-surgical intervention to which he was immediately subjected at Beja Hospital.
After reading the ruling, the defense lawyer, Belchior de Sousa spoke to his client and transmitted it to Lidador NotĂcias (LN) that “I will appeal to the Court of Appeal of Évora (THREE) with the aim of reducing the sentence to five years and getting my client’s prison sentence suspended”, confessed.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
