Very true but if he had done such a deal there would have been a payment trail but none exists. Similarly, the investigation into a potential abduction has come to nothing, the claims were all dead ends.
Only John Cipriano knows what really happened to Joana's remains, neither of his various versions have ever been proven one way or another. In the beginning he claimed she was buried in a field, then she was fed to the pigs and later still she was buried up in the hills. If the latter was true he would have been able to find the grave but that too never happened, Joana remains missing.
In my view Amaral did a reasonable job in bringing the Ciprianos to justice, unfortunately the wrong sibling ended up with the greater sentence.
Payment trail? John, we are not talking CRIMINAL BIG business here.
IF, and I don't believe Joana was sold. IF she was sold Then a couple of hundred pounds would be big money to someone like Joao. No payment trail for such a piddling amount. And think of the drugs that would by
I used to talk to someone from Portugal who worked in an hospital. He was mature and on an adult salary and he earned absolute peanuts. I cant remember how little it was but I tremember wondering how he could exist on such a low income. No adult in the UK would have worked for double the amount.
Almost certainly IMO Joana was kidnapped. If she was, then Joao was unable to say where she was. Joao, being we are told, of somewhat limited intellect would probably try and defuse the situation when demands were made of him to tell the PJ where she was. Maybe he feared a roughing up - or - Maybe he was offered his fix ?
Dunno! But I can't help wondering