convicted man 2 years of effective imprisonment and a woman 1 years and 6 months with suspended sentence. Were cleared of six of the seven crimes they were charged with.
He was sentenced to two years in prison, for the crime of aggravated coercion, the attempted form, the individual who threatened to death the Mayor of Vidigueira and his wife at one year and six months for the same crime in co-authorship. LuĂs P. of 42 year old, who is trapped, will serve effective sentence, while Maria R. of 39 year old, his sentence is suspended for the duration of the sentence.
The couple came to court accused of six aggravated coercion crimes, the attempted form, in the person of LuĂs Raposo, the Vidigueirense edil and a crime of aggravated threat, in the finished form, in the person of the mayor's wife.
The couple was acquitted of five crimes of aggravated coercion, by virtue of the court considered that a single crime was committed continuously against the mayor, and that the aggravated threat to his wife has not been proven.
In reading the judgment, the president of the Judicial Collective of the Court of Beja, VĂtor Maneta, recalled that at the date of the, in the summer of 2018, LuĂs P. “Had been sentenced to one year and two months of house arrest, which was not enough to stay away from the practice of crimes "adding that" there are several suspended prison sentences to which he had already been sentenced and other effective ones he later incurred ", held.
The magistrate went further and justified that “despite the opportunities for integration in the community, they were not demotivating, the defendant is not aware of any improvement in his social inclusion ”, finished.
The attitudes of the defendants were justified by them in court with the fact that “they intend to allocate social housing, that was denied them and attributed to other people ”, fact denied by the mayor who maintained that the Municipality “had no houses to allocate”.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
