Ourique: Cane with a metal tip was murder weapon in the home of the Holy House.
Woman kills another with sticks in the home of the Santa Casa da Misericordia de Ourique. Cane with a metal tip was murder weapon. PJ heard yesterday afternoon the woman in Beja Hospital.
As paredes, the floor, the two women's beds and clothes were dyed red, of the victim's blood, that she had been attacked by her roommate.
When the employees of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Ourique home and then the firefighters, They entered, cerca the 23,00 Sunday hours, in the two women's bedroom, the scenery was Dantesque.
Those in the cabin described the scene as “surreal, horrible and never seen before, nor in homicides with firearms”, justifying that “the victim’s skull was spread across the room”, given the many blows he had received from a cane with a metal tip.
Mariana Vitória's body was prostrate on the floor in a bloodbath, with a broken head. Turn, Maria Barbara, the presumed homicide, you were sitting on your bed, calmly and without saying a word.
This was the scenario that the home’s employees encountered at 23,00 hours, on his usual tour of the rooms to see how the 82 home users. The two women's bedroom is at the end of a corridor., users or workers of the institution did not hear screams or calls for help.
Inside the institution, “sour and unfriendly relations” between the two users were known., but nothing predicted such an outcome.
Despite the Judiciary Police (PJ) still investigating the causes of the crime, everything points to the conflictive relationship between the two women, and the fact that Maria suffered from psychiatric disorders, being monitored by the Psychiatry Services of Hospital de Beja.
The GNR took charge of the incident, but later called the PJ and inspectors from the Faro Directorate took over the investigations. The body of the victim was taken to the Medical-Legal Office of Beja Hospital, while the suspected killer was transported to the Castro Verde Health Center, and then taken to the Psychiatry Service of the Bejense hospital unit.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), recommended by the PJ, the woman was hospitalized in an isolated room, custody, having been heard late yesterday afternoon (Monday). throughout the day, the inspectors were at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia home listening to users, employees, provider and also firefighters, to try to understand the contours of the crime.
The woman must be brought before a judge who will decide on her provisional hospitalization or detention until trial..
Santa Casa da Misericórdia issued a statement “regretting what happened”, justifying that the alleged perpetrator of the crime is accompanied by the Psychiatric Services of Beja Hospital, which “granted her consecutive discharges”, justifying that he will provide further clarifications in due course.
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Maria Bárbara Delfina, 69 year old, resident in Grandaços, municipality of Ourique, had been at the institution for approximately 4 year old, and had psychiatric problems, which is why he was sent to the home. She was monitored by the Psychiatry Service of Beja Hospital, but at home he had never shown aggressive behavior towards other users.
She is married to António Fernandes, has a daughter from her first marriage and doesn't speak to her sister, who lives in the village of Grandaços, for at least 30 year old.
Mariana Victory, 88 year old, the victim, lives in Vale Santiago, county of Odemira, and had been in the home for several years, no known problems or animosities with other users.
The two women shared the same room in the home of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Ourique, where are more 80 users, men and women.
José Raul dos Santos (Provider of Santa Casa)
“It is a completely inexplicable case. Nobody expected a situation like this. On one of the rounds of the rooms, It was our employees who discovered the terrible scenario and alerted the authorities.”.
António Fernandes (Husband of suspected murderer)
“I was warned by the home, by phone, to 11,30 hours, I haven't been talking to anyone yet. I always accompanied my wife. I'm very upset and I don't want to know any more.”~
Raul Romão (Cafe owner and neighbor)
“I always knew her with head problems. She was not very talkative and was not aggressive. The husband goes home periodically. It was a case that surprised everyone in the village. It's a small medium about 150 inhabitants and there is no talk of anything else”.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
