The 52-year-old man, who murdered his 44-year-old wife last Wednesday in Machico, was heard today at the Criminal Investigation Court of Funchal, where he pleaded guilty. As of today, the man is being held in preventive detention, at the Funchal Prison, awaiting trial. Samantha Gannon info at madeira-weekly.com
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The 52-year-old man suspected of murdering his partner last Wednesday has been discharged from hospital and has now been detained by the Judicial Police (PJ). According to a brief statement, the murdered woman was assaulted for ‘futile reasons’ and beaten over the head with an iron bar. The case continues…
Ernesto Pestana, a man who in May 2023, shot his partner dead, in Meia Légua, located in the municipality of Ribeira Brava, has been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment. Ernesto Pestana’s daughter, still a minor, could not contain her tears, and had to be calmed down by friends and family.…
The fundraising campaign to help the family of little Alice Aguiar, murdered in England, in a stabbing that killed two other children, is already at 28 thousand pounds. Alice Aguiar, who would have turned 10 in October, was the only child of a Madeiran couple, born in the parish of…
The man suspected of murdering 36-year-old Artur Sousa in the early hours of Sunday morning in Campanário, Ribeira Brava, has been remanded in custody following his first judicial interrogation.
The two defendants in the Monte Tree Tragedy case, Idalina Perestrelo responsible for Urban Environment, Green and Public Spaces, and the head of the Gardens and Green Spaces Division, Francisco Andrade, will find out today whether they are to stand trial and if so, what crimes will be levied against them. Both were accused by the Public Ministry of 13 crimes of negligent homicide and 49 offences of involuntary or negligent physical integrity.