The Lisbon West District Court, in Sintra, began this Thursday the trial of a young man with psychiatric problems for the murder of his grandmother, in Mafra, but without the presence of the accused due to the prison guards’ strike.
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At the beginning of the hearing, the president of the court, Carlos Camacho, said that the defendant was not present due to the prison guards’ strike, and the defense authorized the trial to take place in his absence.
In the session, all the witnesses were heard, including the mother of the accused and the daughter of the victim, who was the one who found her dead, knew about the lunch between the victim and the suspect on the day of the crime and reported the suspect to the GNR. , for knowing the anomaly psychic condition suffered by the young man.
Soldiers from the GNR and an inspector from the Judicial Police also declared that traces of blood and other signs were found that make the defendant the perpetrator of the grandmother’s murder.
The panel of judges scheduled a session for September 15 to hear the defendants. The 23-year-old, awaiting trial in preventive internment at the Caxias Penitentiary Hospital, is accused by the Public Ministry (MP) of consummated homicide and the crime of possession of a prohibited weapon.
Man in preventive detention for qualified murder of his grandmother in Mafra
According to the deputy’s indictment, to which the Lusa agency had access, on December 15, at 3:30 p.m., the young student went to his grandmother’s residence, in the town of Gonçalvinhos, in Mafra (district of Lisbon). ), armed with two suitcases. and a backpack with personal items, including two kitchen knives.
After speaking with Grandma and walking her through the backyard to the garage, “for reasons yet to be determined, gave him at least 63 hits“, hitting her in the head, neck, trunk and abdomen and causing damage to her heart, aorta, lungs, diaphragm, liver, stomach and right kidney, among other organs.
The defendant sustained injuries to his right hand. Still at the victim’s home, he washed his hands and knives in the bathroom, according to prosecutors.
He then left the house and drove a light car to his home in Mafra, where he called 112 for help and was transferred, at 5:00 p.m., by firefighters to the Hospital de Santa María, in Lisbon, because of his hand. injuries
According to the MP, the defendant, diagnosed with schizophrenia and in a situation of decompensation, “acted with extreme coldness of spirit, motivated exclusively by a futile reason.”
The body of the 82-year-old victim was found by the mother of the accused and the daughter of the old woman around 6:00 p.m., through third parties.
After his complaint, the suspect was identified and detained in flagrante delicto by the Judicial Police at the hospital for strong indications of the crime of qualified homicide.
Source: Observadora
