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 President of Chega has said that two of the citizens murdered in Lisbon were candidates for the party in Alenquer and that he will report “sharing and information” to the authorities, despite not having any evidence of political motivations. Speaking to journalists at the Assembly of the Republic, André…
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.
Artur Sousa, a 36-year-old man who was stabbed over the weekend, died from his wounds
The man suspected of the murder of his partner, Délia Gouveia, aged 53, on Sunday night, in Meia Légua, Ribeira Brava, was heard this afternoon in the first judicial interrogation, in the Court of the District of Madeira, in Funchal.