I agree Sadie, Amaral has been thoroughly discredited, his conviction really says something as such convictions of policemen rarely occur in the Iberian peninsula..
Thoroughly discredited? By a technical conviction because the story given by his men was found to be untrue at the time and therefore his statement corroborating their words had to be false? And since then Leonor Cipriano has been jailed for another 7 months for lying about the whole thing? And you state he's been discredited?
Wow...
So let's just wait and see on what happens to his conviction then...!
This, of course seems to be Amarals ACE .. and probably why he has kept putting off his libel trial?
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Like Pat Browns fiasco this seems to be a complete perversion of Justice. An altering of the facts.
Since when has a woman been tried for giving evidence in Court? She wasn't even able to identify her torturers because a bag was put over her head as she was forced to kneel on ashtrays and be beaten up.
Just how could such an injustice take place? How could a woman who didn't identify any of the torturers be given a further jail sentence for Amarals lies and whatever the other officer did? Fill in false statements IIRC.
And why was this case behind closed doors. Why was it at Faro, which almost always seems to find in favour of the PJ? ... even against all the evidence as in Michael Cooks case
What is Cristavao being taken thru the Courts for? Am i right in thinking that he has "files" on everyone of importance? Files about peoples unsavoury habits? I wonder why he would want them?
Jeez PT justice system s***ks. Nothing short of Fascism at its worst. Democracy has come into Portugal in name only, it seems
Fascism in sheeps clothing.
Perversion of Justice. Since when has a woman been jailed for giving evidence which she believes true? She could not identify her torturers so did no harm there. It was proven in two Courts that she was tortured.
This case ius Not about any wrong doing by Leonor. It is about trying to get Amaral off his conviction ... so that he can be the "badly mistreated" innocent who has ben harmed .. so that he gets the PT peeps behind hin and so that he can fight the Mccanns off.
Please note this is only my opinion, but I cant think why else Leonor was taken thru the courts again.Will there be another Court of "Justice" there in the Mccann v Amaral case Jeez!