The Court of Faro today postponed to April 2 the reading of the sentence of Leonor Cipriano, arrested for the murder of her daughter Joana, in the process in which she is accused of making false statements.
The child's mother, who disappeared in the village of Figueira, in Portimão, on September 12, 2004, presented different versions of the alleged attacks that she was victimized in the premises of the Judiciary Police in Faro, that same year.
According to a judicial source, the court understood that it was necessary to add to this process documentary elements from the previous process, in which Leonor Cipriano accused several agents of having assaulted her during the interrogation.
Leonor Cipriano - who, like her brother, is serving 16 years in prison for murder and concealment of a corpse -, was exempted from appearing today in the Court of Faro to hear the reading of the judgment.
The contradictory statements were made during the trial of the inspectors who investigated the “Joana case” in 2009, which resulted in the conviction of two of the five defendants in the process.
In the judgment, the panel of judges considered "flagrant and relevant the contradictions that Leonor Cipriano incurred" in the statements she produced in the trial sessions, although she had had the "opportunity to reveal the truth".
The court found the aggressions to be proven, although the identity of the aggressors was not investigated.
Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of Portimão, was acquitted of the crime of omitting a complaint and sentenced to a year and a half for the crime of false testimony, with a suspended sentence for an equal period.
Inspector António Nunes Cardoso was sentenced to two years and three months for falsifying a document, with a two-year suspended sentence.
Former PJ agents Paulo Pereira Cristóvão, Leonel Morgado Marques and Paulo Marques Bom, who were accused of having tortured Leonor Cipriano in the interrogations carried out in the PJ of Faro, were acquitted.
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