The Court of Faro today condemned Leonor Cipriano to seven months in prison for having made false statements in the case in which five PJ inspectors accused of crimes of aggression and torture.
This penalty is in addition to the 16 years that the defendant complies with the murder of her daughter Joana - missing in the village of Figueira, Portimão, on 12 September 2004 - and which has served about half.
According to the court, it was proven that Leonor Cipriano lied about how officers beat her and submitted in court different versions of events that occurred during the interrogations she underwent in 2004, after the crime.
According to the judge who delivered the judgment today, despite not having taken oath, the defendant, acting as assistant, was warned that she could not miss the fact, at the risk of being punished, and if it did, "she did so because wanted "and consciously.
The court held that the illegality committed is "remarkable gravity" and is "above average degree", given the severe sentence that the defendant complies, the seriousness of the facts, the defendants and the quality of media coverage of the case.
"It is crystal clear that the defendant lacked the truth," the judgment, which highlights various contradictions as to how she was attacked and agents who were present at the interrogation room where he says she was assaulted.
The possibility of imposing a suspended sentence was dismissed because the court finds that, despite the heavy prison sentence that fulfils the defendant continued to show disrespect for the rules.
The court added that it would be "naive" to think that a "mere threat" of imprisonment contributes to the "recovery" of the defendant, who was waived today to appear in court to hear the reading of the judgment.
The contradictory statements about the attacks that were targeted were delivered between 2008 and 2009, during the trial of the inspectors who investigated the "Joana case" that resulted in the conviction of two of the five defendants in the case.
The court gave as proven assaults, though without finding the identity of the attackers.
Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of Portimão, was acquitted of the crime of failure to report abuse and sentenced to a year and a half for the crime of making false allegations, were suspended for the same period.
The inspector António Nunes Cardoso was sentenced to two years and three months for forgery of document, sentence suspended for two years.
The former agents of PJ Paulo Pereira Cristovao Morgado Leonel Marques and Paulo Marques Bom, who were accused of having tortured Leonor Cipriano in interrogations conducted in Faro PJ, were acquitted.
