I don't accept he lied, he said he believed his officers did not assault Leonor Cipriano and it was later proven her testimony about the beating was lies, so Amaral was acting in good faith based on what he knew to be true.
"The Court of Faro condemned today Leonor Cipriano to seven more months in jail for making false accusations in the process which incriminated five Judiciary Police officers of the crimes of aggression and torture."
https://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2013/04/leonor-cipriano-condemned-to-seven-more.html
Fellow inmates were interviewed and said they assaulted Cipriano.
" I know that just a few days ago we completed an interview with ex-prisoners from the same prison complex, and I know that she was beaten inside the prison. I say this with absolute certainty. And, well, I’m not going to say this is normal but it happens a lot… "
https://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2008/11/duarte-levy-paulo-sargento-on-cipriano.html
How all these accusations about lying and drinking supposedly prove Amaral's theories and conclusions are not logical is beyond me.
Amarals, officers stated in court they saw, her, throw, herself down the, stairs, in the, police, station so they, admitted, bei g present when the injuries happened... The, court did, not believe, them and ruled that they had beaten cipriani... The court also decided, amaral lied..
Amarals theory is not based on logic but on his, misunderstanding of the, evidence.