Sentenced to a prison sentence of 7 years and 8 months, in legal height, for four crimes he committed in 2016 and 2017, against his then wife and one of his children, who tried to kill by setting fire to the furniture.
Fifteen months after being released on parole, the individual once again committed death threats to his family.
On the evening of the last day 24 March, curiously six years after being convicted, Francisco Pateira, of 66 year old, resident in Vila Nova de São Bento, Serpa county, returned to the house where the family was, drunk tried to break down the door and not even the presence of the GNR could stop him.
According to the indictment to which Lidador Notícias had access, the individual made several threats: “I have several pistols. I'm not afraid of anyone. I've been in prison for five and a half years, I'm not afraid to go inside, but you go underground”, vociferou.
The defendant will be retried, this time for a crime of aggravated domestic violence, practices against his ex-wife, a crime of harm to physical integrity, qualified, and four crimes of threat, aggravated, perpetrated against children.
in the indictment, prosecutors (MP) Serpa, argues that the defendant should be condemned as a repeat offender and an amount should be awarded as compensation for damages suffered by the mother of his children.
It all started the night of 18 June 2017, when Francisco Pateira, already after acts of domestic violence against women, piled up sofas, tables and chairs next to the child's room, watered furniture with gasoline and set it on fire, aiming to kill his descendant. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, but the court acquitted him of the crime of qualified homicide in the attempted form.
After the episodes of last March, the defendant was again placed in pre-trial detention, and is now under permanent residence with an electronic bracelet, starting to be judged at the beginning of the week by a Collective of Judges at the Court of Beja, in a process where the ex-wife and children were constituted as plaintiffs.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
