Viana do Alentejo: 23 years in prison for killing his wife with 17 stab.
Joaquim Goose, of 54 year old, the individual who killed his wife with 17 stab, three of which pierced the lungs and the heart and were the direct cause of his death, He was sentenced to a single penalty 23 year old.
The accused heard the president of the Collective of Judges of the Court of Évora, apply his penalty 22 years in prison for the offense of aggravated homicide and 2 years and 6 months for the crime of domestic violence, the death of Maria Silveria, of 52 year old, the mother of his three children.
Joaquim Goose was also ordered to the victim's family to compensation payments amounting to 190.000 euros.
The facts date back to 6 May 2017, when the killer armed with a knife with a sheet about 20 centimeters, He left the Old Hill Estate, in the vicinity of Alcáçovas, and it went to the village in order to kill the woman.
The man, profession of pastor, He did not accept divorce the woman he married there 35 years and with whom he had three adult children, who two months before had left home and gone to live with one of them, given the constant aggression, Physical and verbal, husband.
The crime occurred when Maria was drinking coffee with his mother and two cousins, on the terrace garden, when it was caught by Joaquim gripped and immobilized with one arm around the neck and struck him 17 stab wounds on the face, neck, arms and chest.
Several times, Joaquim assaulted the woman in the presence of children. On one occasion, as stated in the indictment, "I picked up a stick, he used as a walking stick and struck several blows to the body of Mary. Fearing for life Maria took the children and spent the night in the field, under a tree ".
While the defense of the accused announced to reporters that "would appeal the sentence", the victim's family lawyer, Filomena Pinela, He delivered a statement in which one could read that Mary Silveria was a woman "of extraordinary strength and courage, who decided to live in freedom and became happy, surrounded by the children and grandchildren ", adding that "when you can choose, We chose freedom ", concluded.
The document and a message addressed to the President of the Republic who was his professor of law at Catholic University, the lawyer maintains that "if there was in Portugal the Order of the Individual Freedom to Mary Silveria deserved to be awarded posthumously", finished.
Joaquim Goose will continue in custody awaiting the final judgment of the judgment.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
