A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to six years in prison for stabbing two men during the São Pedro festivities in Ribeira Brava. The Funchal court convicted P. Andrade of attempted murder and causing bodily harm on Tuesday, 29th of September.
The attack took place on Ribeira Brava beach in the early hours of 29th of June 2025. One of the victims was a Madeiran PSP officer serving in Lisbon who had returned to the island on holiday. The officer suffered serious injuries, including a punctured lung.
The trial began on 9th of September. At the first hearing, the defendant and other people involved said they remembered little of the incident because they had been drinking. Andrade told the court he wasn’t someone who went looking for trouble, but the judge highlighted a previous conviction.
In an earlier case, Andrade was sentenced to five years for attempting to kill his brother with a knife in Campanário in September 2021 and for possessing a prohibited weapon. That sentence was suspended on condition that he underwent treatment for drug addiction.
Samantha Gannon
info at madeira-weekly.com
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