He was sentenced to 5 years in prison, in legal height, was free because the penalty was suspended for the same period.
A British citizen who stabbed two people with a coffee in the village of Trindade, county Beja, was sentenced to five years in prison, suspended for the same period. The Court of Judges of the Court of Beja considered that "there was no intention to kill" dropping the crimes of murder in the tempted form and John Clarke, of 30 year old, that was in pre -trial detention was free.
The defendant was acquitted of a crime of resistance and coercion about an employee and one of an aggravated threat, having been convicted of a crime of offenses to qualified physical integrity, punished with a penalty of 3 years and 4 months in prison, a crime of offenses to qualified physical integrity, with a feather of 1 year, A crime of offenses to simple physical integrity, with a feather of 9 months, a crime of offenses to negligent physical integrity, the penalty 9 months in prison, A crime of aggravated injury, the penalty 2 months and a prohibited weapon detention crime, the penalty 1 Prison year.
Of total 7 years in prison, The Judges Collective condemned John Clarke to a legal cumulus of 5 year old, with the penalty to be suspended.
Your mother Sharon Clarke, of 49 year old, Also sat on the Bank of the defendants, accused of a crime of aggravated injuries, having been sentenced to a penalty of 80 fine days, at the rate of 5 euros / day, total no 400 euros.
Between compensation to victims, health services, social Security, militar da GNR, John Clarke was ordered to pay 6.490 euros and their parent to pay the amount of 150 euros.
The facts occurred next to Café Riba Terges on the day 3 October last year, when the defendant spotted a man with whom he had had an argument four days earlier and whom he had threatened with death, after the Brit's dog injured the victim's sheep and the victim called the GNR.
Arrived at the cafe, armed with a dagger, John Clarke addressed Joaquim Sebastião with the expressions: "son of a bitch, I'm going to end your life" and continued to move forward in the direction of that one and dealt several blows to the victim. Manuel Raposo, who sought to end the conflict between the two individuals was also stabbed by the defendant.
Only the prompt intervention of the then commander of the GNR Detachment of Beja, captain Nuno Afonso, saved the Briton from being lynched by the village of Trindade, after that that has stabbed the two people.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
