Several hours of interrogation led to the confession of the crime. First John Cipriano took participation in the concealment of the corpse of her niece, after the mother of Joan admitted responsibility for the murder, committed against a minor, on the night of 12th of this month, the house where they lived in Figueira.
September 26, 2004 No. of votes (0) Comments (15)
By: Jose Carlos Eusebio / John Mendes / MB
An accidental death, claimed the woman before the judge of instruction of the Court of Portimão, Ana Soares, who ordered the arrest of the woman and told the man in freedom with the obligation to report daily to the authorities.
The coercive measures were only known approximately 3:00 a.m. in the morning yesterday, at a time when dozens of popular revolt were still concentrated at the door of the Court (some remained there throughout the day).
According to BBC News has learned, the murdered girl's uncle, João Cipriano, who was the first to be heard by the judge (he was being interrogated since mid-afternoon until 21:30), will initially admitted the crime but later, when the statements were recorded in written form, the individual just by pointing his finger to his sister, the mother of Joan.
"It is with my sister" - the phrase was used again and again by the individual, when confronted with issues related to how the murder had taken the child, referring to all the explanations Leonor Cipriano case.
João Cipriano has only acknowledged that he helped his sister (upon request) to get rid of the body of Joan, after the girl was dead. Ensured that the body was placed in a field close to home, but stressed that he was not sure where, because "it was dark."
However, Joan's mother, Leonor Cipriano, who was heard between 21:30 and about 00:00, came to confess to the murder of their daughter's death. The woman however justified that it was an accident, saying he had given a slap on the child and this had struck his head on a wall, becoming unconscious.
Leonor Cipriano said to have been bewildered and panicked at the prospect of killing his daughter, decided to wrap the girl's body in a cloth and put him in a plastic bag. He then asked the help of his brother to dispose of the body's own daughter, which she said came to pass at a site near the house. Like his uncle, the mother of Joan will also apologized to the dark, as well as the state of panic that would find, not knowing where to put her daughter's body. This is indeed the reason given by both to the fact that the clues provided so far to the PJ put on where the body may prove completely false.
Lately, the mother of Joan is giving the idea of finding psychologically affected by the case and there is often "does not say anything to anything," according to the expression used by a source close to the investigation.
After hearing the two suspects, Judge of Criminal retired to decide on enforcement measures to be applied to your presence by calling his mother and uncle of Joana about 1:30 a.m.. It was then communicated to Leonor Cipriano who would be in custody and João Cipriano that would free by the end of identity and residence and daily presentations to the authorities (GNR Silves).
Whether the mother of Joan's uncle wants to eventually leave the Court of Portimão, around 3:00 a.m. in the PJ car through the garage located behind the building. Due to the presence of dozens of popular (although most were concentrated in the doorway), PJ vehicles left the scene at high speed, with the collaboration of the Body of Intervention PSP.
DETAILS
DETENTION
The arrests of Leonor Cipriano and her brother, John, were made on Thursday last by the inspectors of the Regional Chamber to Combat Gangsterism PJ of Faro, who took over the investigation of the case in 21 days, eight days after the disappearance.
VERSIONS
During the production process, initiated by the GNR and later handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of Portimão to go to the Directory of Faro, the child's mother insisted on the release of kidnapping. During interrogation revealed that he had seen her daughter last moments before her morning's shopping in a cafe in the village, about 19.00 for 12 days.
MONEY
The intent to extort a small amount of money that Joan had the discussion that has provoked the least opposed to the two families. Mother and uncle to the girl demanded that they surrender their meager savings, made with money that relatives gave them, but the child resisted. The PJ revealed on the day of the arrests that the attacks against Joan had intended to kill her. Blood found in the house led to discover the crime.
PAIN AND DOORS TO POPULAR REVOLT OF THE COURT
If you could have made the law into their own hands. Concentrates on the door of the court of Portimão, hundreds of popular revolt against the brothers Cipriano left heart speak louder and dictated a sentence right there early for the crime "macabre" committed against the minor.
"They deserve death," was the unanimous verdict. At the hour when Leonor and her brother confessed to the judge have their hands stained with blood, as everyone knew that Joan would never walk the streets of Figueira, but the memory still had the smile of careless girl who appeared in rectangles of paper scattered around the village , where he wrote pleas to bring back.
Legitimated by the pain that "one bad mother" never revealed, but overcome by weariness of waiting, the popular eventually silence the cries of vengeance, but remain vigilant until the time that the doors of the court opened again to pass the " murderers. "
Because the dawn has given respite to revolt, no words left to repeat the sentiments of hatred thrown against pa Leonor and João during late, but the dozens of men and women who stood beside the building to be known to the decision, looked over shoulder while returning home, had the feeling that there was a criminal on the loose.
All this stuff came after two days of torture to Leonor. Anyone will say anything they are told to after they have been broken by torture. Anything to keep the dreaded pain away. Tortured out evidence is NOT evidence at all
This is the grossest Miscarriage of Justice that I have ever heard about.
As lengthy brutal torture was used, especially against Leonor, nothing about this case can be believed.
