An attempted murder with a knife, perpetrated by a young man 19 year old, was punished with a sentence of 5 years and 6 months in prison and the payment of two compensations exceeding 9.000 euros, one of which to the victim worth 5.000 euros for moral damages.
Given the long record of violent crimes perpetrated by the defendant, the Collective of Judges removed the application of the Special Regime for Young People.
Five other defendants involved in the contempt, all aged between 18 and 21 year old, had different luck. Four were responsible for committing the crime of simple physical integrity offense, were fined, but pardoned under the so-called “Pope’s Amnesty Law” and the fifth, who was accused of the crime of aggravated threat, He was acquitted.
The crime occurred during a Christmas celebration dance, which took place at the headquarters of the Porto Peles Residents' Cultural and Recreational Association, parish of Our Lady of the Snows, in Beja county, when Leandro Moreira, natural de Ermesinin, Valongo municipality, but resident for a few months in that village, with the use of a knife, he inflicted two blows on the abdomen and chest, almost killing your opponent.
The attacker, was arrested out of flagrante delicto, by inspectors of South Directorate of the Judicial Police (PJ), and after appearing in court he was placed in preventive detention. By judicial office of 16 January 2023, became subject to the coercive measure of obligation to remain in the home. A 28 March, the defendant tried to cut the electronic bracelet, which led to preventive detention being ordered again. A few days from the trial, the Court of Évora Relationship (THREE) rejected his lawyer's appeal requesting that he return to house arrest.
The individual was the target of guardianship and educational processes for minors when he lived in Faro and is suspected of several theft crimes in OlhĂŁo, These latest cases have not yet reached trial. The defendant will remain in preventive detention, in Prison Beja, awaiting the final and unappealable decision of the judgment, handed down by the Court of Beja.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
