Odemira: Acquitted of murder of his brother by a Collective Court of Beja.
He was accused of having taken the life his brother with a pistol shot, but eventually acquitted by a judgment of the Collective Criminal Court Beja, for lack of evidence. The defendant fulfills prison sentence of eight years for robbery.
An individual 50 year old, He was acquitted in the Criminal Court of Beja, by a Collective Court of an offense of aggravated homicide, He is accused of the death of a brother, crime I committed in the early hours of the day 25 May 2016, inside the dwelling in Brunheiras, Vila Nova de Milfontes.
The prosecution argued that Carlos F., It would have provided a gun and have made a shot against brother, reaching the neck and caused immediate death. On the night of the incident the individual told PJ that six men from a rival family "a reckoning" had broken out in house, killed the brother Andrew and after being tied to a chain they had beaten.
The PJ Setubal did not believe the version described, asked the individual accused and constituted, but only in the third quarter of 2018 PJ completed the survey and considered to have unraveled the scheme set up by the suspect.
In court the accused kept the same version and the evidence presented in court was not sufficient to convict the individual and acquitted him of the offense of aggravated homicide.
Carlos F., was not restored to freedom since since September 2018, It is in the Prison of the Cross Pinheiro (Grândola), serving a sentence of 8 years in prison for robbery.
From 30 October are already five acquitted the defendants in trials involving a Collective Court. Besides Carlos, They have not been convicted two of the defendants who were accused of sexual abuse of minors and another two for several thefts, some of them qualified.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
