Cipriano Case: Mystic Lawyer Requests Seaches

Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer wants searches‭ “‬at an abandoned house‭”


Today,‭ ‬Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer has requested the GNR to carry out searches at‭ “‬an abandoned house up in the hills of Figueira‭”‬,‭ ‬Portimão,‭ ‬where Joana’s mother confessed that João Cipriano buried the little girl’s body

In a formal request that was sent to the Portimão Headquarters of GNR,‭ ‬which Lusa had access to,‭ ‬Marcos Aragão Correia communicated that Leonor Cipriano told him on Tuesday,‭ ‬at the Prison of Odemira,‭ ‬that‭ “‬murderer João Cipriano told her that he had buried the body in the hills of Figueira‭” ‬at‭ “‬an abandoned house‭”‬.

Joana’s mother’s representative in the process of the alleged aggressions‭ that involves current and former Polícia Judiciária inspectors, to obtain a confession from Leonor Cipriano, stressed in the letter that his client "guarantees" the statements made by her brother and the child's uncle "in those days" that followed the disappearance.

‭"[Leonor Cipriano] remembers that (...) he mentioned an abandoned house, although she cannot remember the specific circumstances under which the homicide did so, whether in the presence of a third party or not, and whether referring to the concealment of the little girl's cadaver or not", the lawyer underlined in the letter that was sent to the GNR by fax.

‭The little girl, then eight, disappeared from the village of Figueira, Portimão, Algarve, on the 12th of September of 2004, and the Supreme Court of Justice condemned Leonor Cipriano and João Cipriano (siblings) to 16 years in prison each, for the crimes of homicide and concealment of the child's body.

‭Following the interrogations in the "Joana case" that were carried out at the PJ in Faro, three inspectors stand accused of the crime of torture, one stands accused of failing to assist and omitting a denunciation, and a fifth one stands accused of forgery of a document.

‭In one of the most recent trial sessions, at the Court of Faro, Leonor Cipriano altered her statement and attributed the little girl's death to her uncle, João Cipriano, who said he convinced her to hand her daughter over to a family, in exchange for financial compensation.

‭The next session of the trial over the alleged aggressions against Leonor Cipriano by Polícia Judiciária inspectors is scheduled for the 20th of February.

‭source: Sol, 28.01.2009

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by astro

Leonor Cipriano's Lawyer, sent a fax to the GNR of Portimão in the late afternoon of yesterday, calling for searches to be done in "an abandoned house up there, in the mountains of Figueira," where the mother of Joana [convicted for murdering Joana] says that her brother João Cipriano buried the the corpse of the eight year old girl.

Leonor and João were sentenced for the murder of Joana.

The GNR informed the lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia that he should have sent the fax to the Judiciary Police, however they communicated the transmission of the fax to the department of the PJ in Portimão.

Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of PJ responsible for the investigation, assured to the CM that all old and abandoned houses in the north area of Figueira were target of searches, including one that was at the time indicated by [the murderer] Leonor Cipriano.

Source: Correio da Manhã

By Astro

I hope he isnt sending them on a wild goose chase