Leonor supposedly slapped Joana because she caught her mother in an act of incest. This was thrown out by The Court. Hence The Motive was down the Swanee.
Yep. Leonor's Lawyer was and still is a friend of Amaral. Caught taking drugs into the prison, but never charged.
What an unholy mess.
So having apparently 'voluntarily' revealed a motive for murder that would appall and totally disgust everyone in Portugal - ensuring that her goose was well and truly cooked anyway - LC then decided for some inexplicable reason not to reveal the far lesser crime of where the body was - even when she was beaten half to death. Why? There simply is no logic to that.
IMO that 'motive', which the court threw out, came straight from the PJ and was designed to whip up so much hatred and animosity via the press in the general public's mind - right from the start - that they would be so incensed they would happily turn a blind eye to the fact that there was no actual evidence against her.
That approach certainly seemed to work with the jury members The court could find no motive and there was no forensic evidence. But still she was found guilty? How does that work?
IMO It's impossible to ignore the fact that the same approach was used in the McCann case by that 'person' who went on TV at the very beginning and announced as a confirmed fact - that the McCanns were 'swingers' - or as some members of the watching public would perceive them to be - grossly sexually immoral foreigners. And thus the same vile smear campaign against yet another grieving mother began imo.
