Why would she confess ,If as some say she had already confessed at some time earlier? Because she hadn’t already confessed? Press reports were all the information available to anyone.
A lot of lies and extreme pressure to condemn Leonor, through tortured out confessions and from people at the time of press releases and the trial IMO. …Not her lies!.
The other “sold” confession, was thrown out of court and I believe this confession was a ploy to have the sentence reduced.
I would try anything too, to get out of prison......How about you?
Her family probably didn't want her back for a break or xmas, because they knew that they would be plagued by the media, which is totally understandable after what they had gone through. Leandro's family had suffered substantial losses in their business and had to hire a lawyer for themselves because of assaults on two of their sons and an employee . The abuse then stopped. I guess they used other methods after that to get the required responses. Only my opinion of course.
Leonor's testimony in the torture trial admitted that she did not recognize the accused. She had told them that at an inquiry years previous. Nothing new and not lies. There was no evidence of a crime and the only confession that I know was accepted, was the video made of Joao, reconstructing the murder. Since the court believed he could not have done it alone, it was taken as a joint confession with him as co author.
In press reports.....Leandro said there was tuna and milk in the house already. ........No receipt was found?
Was Joana sent out, because an aggressive argument was going on with Joao and herself.......Joao was threatening , even to his own mother
In press reports.....Leandro said that he never had a saw. So why is it reported otherwise?
In press reports.....Leandro said that Leonor couldn't even clean and quarter a chicken......... How could she butcher her child?
23 feb 2008
Case Joana
Judicial Inspectors will even the trial by
Paula Martinheira23 February 2008Comment on
Five agents are accused of torture to Leonor Cipriano, to bring her to confess the death of her daughter. Goncalo Amaral, who is leading the investigation of the case Maddie was composed accused for not having denounced the case; he was also responsible for the investigation of the disappearance of Joana.
The five inspectors of the Judicial Police (PJ) accused of crimes of torture, falsification of documents, false witness and omission of aid about alleged assaults on the Leonor Cipriano, to lead her is to confess the form which she will have murdered her daughter Joana , in September 2004, were pronounced by the judge of instruction Ana Lucia Cross to go to trial. Joao Grid, lawyer of the girl's mother, believes that the decision will influence the revision of the trial process of Leonor.
Already Paul Christopher, one of the accused, believes that behind the pronunciation is a "clear willingness of some people to control the PJ and ending with the same". In declarations to DN, one inspector says that "there is a certain number of people in Portugal, already identified, which have even been gleeful of contentment with the news of the trial", thus ensuring that, "to his time, these people will be condemned". For Paul Christopher, this is "clearly a political process, already that flees strictly judicial sphere". "The PJ has to be the target of multiple attacks in recent years. For some reason there are several processes of torture taking place against inspectors".
Also Antonio Pragal Colaco, his lawyer and the defendants Leonel Marques, Paulo Marques Good and Antonio Cardoso, all of the Central Directorate for Combating Banditry, said the DN not be "surprised" with the pronunciation for judgment, since "the inspectors are to serve as scapegoats to satisfy claims of some political classes", contended. Arguing that, "if the indictment focuses on obtaining a confession on October 14, 2004, then it must be consistent with itself and release ,Leonor Cipriano".
The fifth accused in this case, by not having denounced the case, is Goncalo Amaral, coordinator until October 2007 the Department of Criminal Investigation (DIC) of Portimao and leader of the research about the disappearance of Maddie. On 14 October 2004, the date on which the MP of Faro believes they have occurred the aggressions to Leonor Cipriano, at premises in PJ (and on the same day that she will have confessed that she killed her daughter and has torn the body), Amaral was responsible for the investigation of the disappearance of Joana. The DN, his lawyer, Antonio Cabrita, said that the decision of the judge was expected, criticizing the fact that the process has been called by district attorney of Evora MP "too much time".
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