Having looked at articles 57 & 58 of the penal code I am a little lost as to how they apply in this instance.
I have read that there is no specific trespass law in Portugal. unless something is fenced in by a wall/hedge/fence exceeding 1.2m in height. Murat's rear driveway does not seem to fall within that criteria (indeed, he is quoted as saying along the lines that anyone could have had access to his property & buried a body - or - how did Birch carry out these tests without our dogs alerting, where is the proof?).
Is this really an act by the local PJ to prevent SY examining the Murat drive on some obscure grounds?
Ah. Are you referring to this?
2.The land in question is self-contained, bordered by a 1.50m high boundary
wall, 2m high hedges and also by a wire fence, inaccessible to any outsider.That seems to be just a description of the grounds of the property in question (nothing to do with the actual statute). I presume it's to establish that he couldn't have inadvertently wandered in there in the middle of the night to do a bit of lawnmowing.
