Disappeared and Abducted Children and Young Adults > The Disappearance of Portuguese youngster Joana Cipriano (8) from the village of Figueira, near Portimão, Algarve, on 12 September 2004.
Leonor Cipriano released from prison after serving five-sixths of her sentence.
Angelo222:
Leonor Cipriano released from prison after serving five-sixths of her sentence.
Published 7 Feb 2019
Leonor Cipriano – the Algarve mother jailed in 2006 for the murder of her eight year old daughter Joana – has been released after serving five-sixths of her sentence.
Talking to TVI24 at the gates of Odemira jail this morning, she said she was leaving with her head held high.
“I am going to work. I have a little job. I don’t need to say anymore”.
But the questions remain. What really happened to tragic Joana whose body has never been found?
Leonor and her now estranged brother João admitted in court that they had killed the little girl at her home in Figueira, midway between Portimão and Mexilhoeira Grande.
João claims to have cut up her body and hidden it in a chest freezer. The child’s remains were later ‘fed to the pigs’.
“I didn’t hurt her, I just killed her”, João told the court which originally passed sentences on him of 19 years and two months, and on Leonor of 20 years and four months.
The prosecution’s case was based on the theory that Leonor and João were engaged in an incestuous relationship – and that they killed Joana for having walked in on them both in bed.
But there have always been those that doubted the story – neighbours particularly. And now Leonor has once again insisted that she had nothing to do with her daughter’s disappearance, least of all her death.
In the mists of this morning in the Alentejo she answered the question “what happened that night when Joana left to go shopping ?” with “she left and never came home. Anyone who says she came home is lying”.
Leonor claims the only reason she admitted to having killed the little girl was because she was tortured by agents of the investigating PJ police.
“They tortured me so much, they left me black and blue from so much punching that I reached the point where I didn’t know what I was saying…”
This too is a sore point in the case: PJ inspectors Gonçalo Amaral and António Nunes Cardoso were given suspended jail sentences for profering false testimonies over the beating.
The condemnation was used liberally to discredit Amaral when he later went on to coordinate the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
But back to Joana, and fact that a body has never been found. Leonor told TVI this morning: “I was condemned without proof. I did not kill my daughter I would never have hurt her”.
Even more, she claims that she “will go everywhere” she can to look for Joana, who would now be 22 years old.
natasha.donn@algarveresident.com
https://www.portugalresident.com/2019/02/07/mother-jailed-for-killing-tragic-joana-released-to-get-on-with-life/
Angelo222:
I wouldn't believe a word that came out of this pairs mouth any more. She talks of looking for Joana despite previously blaming her brother for killing her. For his part, the brother again claims she was sold to foreigners after previously enacting how he cut her up into pieces before dumping her remains.
João Cipriano has now been jailed once for attempted murder and once for murder and is now walking the streets on parole. Glad he doesn't live anywhere near me.
Wonderfulspam:
Their own mother apparently wants nothing to do with the pair.
Mum knows best.
sadie:
--- Quote from: Angelo222 on March 24, 2019, 08:17:27 PM ---Leonor Cipriano released from prison after serving five-sixths of her sentence.
Published 7 Feb 2019
Leonor Cipriano – the Algarve mother jailed in 2006 for the murder of her eight year old daughter Joana – has been released after serving five-sixths of her sentence.
Talking to TVI24 at the gates of Odemira jail this morning, she said she was leaving with her head held high.
“I am going to work. I have a little job. I don’t need to say anymore”.
But the questions remain. What really happened to tragic Joana whose body has never been found?
Leonor and her now estranged brother João admitted in court that they had killed the little girl at her home in Figueira, midway between Portimão and Mexilhoeira Grande.
João claims to have cut up her body and hidden it in a chest freezer. The child’s remains were later ‘fed to the pigs’.
“I didn’t hurt her, I just killed her”, João told the court which originally passed sentences on him of 19 years and two months, and on Leonor of 20 years and four months.
The prosecution’s case was based on the theory that Leonor and João were engaged in an incestuous relationship – and that they killed Joana for having walked in on them both in bed.
But there have always been those that doubted the story – neighbours particularly. And now Leonor has once again insisted that she had nothing to do with her daughter’s disappearance, least of all her death.
In the mists of this morning in the Alentejo she answered the question “what happened that night when Joana left to go shopping ?” with “she left and never came home. Anyone who says she came home is lying”.
Leonor claims the only reason she admitted to having killed the little girl was because she was tortured by agents of the investigating PJ police.
“They tortured me so much, they left me black and blue from so much punching that I reached the point where I didn’t know what I was saying…”
This too is a sore point in the case: PJ inspectors Gonçalo Amaral and António Nunes Cardoso were given suspended jail sentences for profering false testimonies over the beating.
The condemnation was used liberally to discredit Amaral when he later went on to coordinate the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
But back to Joana, and fact that a body has never been found. Leonor told TVI this morning: “I was condemned without proof. I did not kill my daughter I would never have hurt her”.
Even more, she claims that she “will go everywhere” she can to look for Joana, who would now be 22 years old.
natasha.donn@algarveresident.com
https://www.portugalresident.com/2019/02/07/mother-jailed-for-killing-tragic-joana-released-to-get-on-with-life/
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Thank goodness Leonor is finally freed. Do hope that the PJ stop bullying her. Glad to see that she looks as tho she has been kindly looked after at Odemira jail and that she already has a job lined up. I wonder if she will return to her home village, Figuiera; seems her neighbours believe in her innocence.
Thank goodness that some can see thru the imo disinformation and lies given out by the bucketful.
Now to find Joana, what truly happened to her.
faithlilly:
It seems that Cipriano was paroled in February last year and has vowed to keeping looking for her daughter. Do any those who believe that Joana is still alive know what steps she has taken in her goal ? Media appeals ? Balloon releasing ? Anything ?
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