Évora: Lawyer murderer "not remember anything", view of the medication.
"I do not remember anything. I am very medicated. "Were the words used by Francisco Water's Edge, businessman Estremoz, Woman accused lawyer of death in 6 May 2014.
"I'm on very strong medication and not remember anything. I'm not able to remember anything ", were the words often used by Francisco Water's Edge, the businessman Estremoz, when asked about the death of Natalia de Sousa lawyer, crime for which began yesterday (Tuesday) to be prosecuted in the Court of Évora.
The defendant appeared in court, with beard, look deep and far, trembling voice, knitted sweater with a hole in front and one behind, an apparent scenario of being on strong medication effect.
Francisco when asked about the reasons of divorce, said it was "a very serious situation that did not speak", adding when the judge asked him if he was betrayed by the woman, retorted that "I am ashamed of it", concluded.
Asked repeatedly about the events in the day 6 May in the victim's office, the judge who chairs the Panel that the judges and accused him of having "selective memory for some things", crying Francisco said: "Committed a crime unintentionally, but I can not explain what happened. I learned later that he died a lawyer ".
The magistrate's questions about what he meant by that of "committing a crime without believing", and if this had to do with your divorce, Water's Edge, returned to the buzzword "can not explain".
The constant attitude of the accused in "appeal" to the strong medication to not have the facts present, the Public Prosecutor requested that their statements were heard in the first interrogation, which was endorsed by the Bar, which constituted assistant in the process and that these statements were free of appreciation of evidence and the individual was judged by absence.
Accepted application, were heard the statements of Francisco Water's Edge the judges of the Court of Estremoz, where he assumed that "grabbed the neck of the lawyer and hit him head on the floor two or three times. She was alive when you leave the office. Knew at the station, after being arrested, she had died ", said two days after the death of lawyer, arguing that "never meant to kill the woman", concluded.
"I went to the office to show you some pictures of my wife with her lover, to not pay the pension she wanted. The lawyer pushed me and said he ruined my life. I was exhausted from the head and spent me. I grabbed his neck and hit him head on the floor ", recalling that when you leave the office "an individual grabbed me and gave me the police", took in hearing 8 May, before being ordered probation.
After hearing the recording of his testimony, confronted with photos of the crime scene, the defendant returned to "not remember, I do not know what it is ".
The main event of the witnesses are military Évora Traffic Detachment, resident in Estremoz, that stopped the individual and the owners of pastry that works on the ground floor of Sousa Natalia office.
Initially scheduled for 09.30 hours, the trial of Francisco Water's Edge began two hours later due to the strike by prison guards to overtime. Remanded in custody in the Prison Hospital of St. John of God, in Caxias, the accused was transferred on Monday to the Prison Beja, where you will stay until tomorrow (Wednesday).
Voices
Paul Camoesas (defense attorney Edge Water)
"The history of psychiatric illness and the lack of medication, potentiate an unfortunate outcome. I hope the guilt to be used depends on the facts and mitigating, but there is no requirement to practice these acts. At the time confessed to the crime. My client is very medicated and monitored in the psychiatric wing of Caxias Hospital. There are medical experts who will testify the past of my client. "
Rui Silva Leal (Vice President of the General Council of the Bar)
"In the year and because of its functions lawyer was murdered brutally in his office. We will ask the court, according to the evidence produced, is due justice done. Proof of the facts of the prosecution will ask the conviction the maximum penalty the defendant”.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
