Castro Verde: Burglar Beringelinho, where he died aged, on trial.
Armindo introduced in Manuel yard with the aim of stealing. The old gave by his presence and was eventually beaten, and died days later in hospital. The case happened in June 2014, in Beringelinho, Castro Verde and the defendant was only arrested five months later.
Armindo Vasconcelos, 33 year old, resident in Castro Verde, It began yesterday to be prosecuted in the Court of Beja County, accused of aggravated theft crime, which resulted in the death of Manuel Oliveira, of 86 year old, in the face of aggression that was targeted on theft.
The suspect would only be held by inspectors of South Directorate of the Judicial Police five months after being located in a town the center of the country, where he had fled after committing the crime.
The case happened in June last year, in the village of Beringelinho, Castro Verde municipality, when the accused entered the backyard of a house, with the aim of robbing, eventually be surprised by the victim, unleashing her punches and kicks, that would culminate in the death of the old days later, a hospital in Lisbon.
"After committing theft, the individual seized money and objects in gold ", He revealed at the time of the arrest in a statement PJ, adding that "consummated theft, the defendant absented himself for uncertain part of the country ".
Yesterday in court, Armindo said the Collective of Judges which was the home of the victim because "this was due to him 35 euros”, refusing to have taken gold and the old injuries, result "of this is to have tipped took his wallet", denied assaulting and abandoned Manuel Oliveira.
The widow of the victim was called to give evidence, when he was asked to identify the defendant answered: "I do not look for that guy, nor do I see ahead ", eventually give some explanations that came into contradiction, with the given by the grandson minutes before, the description of how the theft occurred and the way in which the attacks have happened to the victim. Armindo Vasconcelos is in custody in Beja Regional Prison.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
