GONC GUILTY OF TORTURE YIPPEE!!!

This news is music to my ears.

18th March 2011

The final decision of the court of appeal: the torture of Leonor Cipriano is declared proven, and the Beast of Portimao is convicted for perjury to 1 year and 6 months of jail. No more appeals are allowed. The torture case is closed concerning the portuguese courts.
No wonder Sofia jumped before she was pushed.

The beast loses yet again.

Wake up Portugal and see what this pig really is, a lying, cheating, drunken thug

YES YES YES!

Its only what we have known all along but its nice to see it made OFFICIAL, again!


Well done Marcos

The Court of Appeal in Évora not upheld the appeals of two inspectors from the Judicial Police convicted in Leonor Cipriano and decided to keep the ruling of first instance, said a lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia .

According to the lawyer for Leonor Cipriano , the Court of Appeal considered it "quite sufficient" all the evidence in the first instance to prove the existence of a "serious crime of torture" against Leonor Cipriano .

At trial, held in Faro, for several months, the two inspectors of the Judicial Police, Gonçalo Amaral and António Cardoso , were sentenced to one year and six months to two years and three months, respectively, suspended in its execution.

Gonçalo Amaral, former coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of Portimão , as the author was convicted of a crime of false allegations, and Antonio Cardoso, as the author of a crime of forgery of a document.

According to Marcos Aragão Correia , the Court of Appeal of Evora has declared "unfounded" every resource, including the claim of the defendants' proof of renewal. "

The lawyer adds that the judges who reviewed the resources, and decide to keep the full ruling of first instance final, confirmed that Leonor Cipriano "was brutally tortured by agents of the various Portuguese Judicial Police who remain unidentified."

According to Aragão Correia , the court considered "not to exacerbate" the sentence imposed by the Goncalo Amaral this be a "primary offender" and also the same as being retired from the police.

Marcos Aragão Correia announced that in consequence of this decision, Leonor Cipriano will lodge a formal complaint against the Portuguese government to the United Nations for violating "the most basic gross human rights".

Defence lawyers said the conviction will be sought and the expulsion of Portugal's Human Rights Commission United Nations .

http://www.ionline.pt/conteudo/111461-caso-leonor-cipriano-tribunal-da-relacao-confirma-condenacao-dos-dois-inspectores-da-pj

Very well done indeed Marcos.

Oh yes, very good news indeed, excellent, well done Marcos.

The truth

Joana Cipriano case - Clarification

March 18, 2011


Marcos Aragão Correia, acting as Attorney Leonor Cipriano, following our first statement issued today to the media, hereby clarify to the public the following:

1 - As for us previously reported (see copy below), the ruling of the Court of Appeal in Évora that today was disclosed, and confirming the full Court of jury about the torture suffered by Leonor Cipriano, can not be appealed, pursuant to Article 400 of the Code of Criminal Procedure;

2 - Given that they have exhausted the legal remedies at national level and considered the decision of the Court of Appeal of Evora to confirm fully that Leonor Cipriano was the victim of brutal torture by agents of the Portuguese Judicial Police, condemning Gonçalo de Sousa Amaral Antonio Fernandes and Nuno Cardoso to suspended prison sentences, and acquitted the other three defendants, Leonor Cipriano will now make use of international instruments at its disposal;

3 - There were two possibilities in this context: the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations, however, international standards establish the impossibility of both organizations about the exact same facts;

4 - Thus, given that they already took approximately seven years since the torture that Leonor Cipriano was the victim, and noting the fact that the European Court of Human Rights has an approximate average, to resolve the cases of five years, presents as more advantageous, even if this is not achieved monetary compensation, the case will lead the United Nations, because this organism has a greater institutional weight, greater global coverage and a higher profile internationally than first body;

5 - Following this decision, both Leonor Maria Dominic Cipriano (mother of Joana Cipriano), as António Leandro David Silva (stepfather of Joana Cipriano), will present formal complaints against Portugal, by torture, the Office of the High Commissioner United Nations Human Rights (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx), with the aim of achieving the condemnation of the Portuguese government for serious violations of their human rights, including those protected by the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, to which Portugal is a signatory, calls on the Committee Against Torture (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/) to investigate and order the Portuguese State, and yet deemed inadmissible, following the acceptance of applications from Portugal to a member of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, as it is hypocritical pretense of the Portuguese government (http://www.dn.pt/Inicio/interior.aspx?content_id = 1795478), for the purposes of these complaints, Leonor Cipriano and António Leandro have signed on, both forensic attorney with special powers.


Funchal, 18 March 2011.


Marcos Aragão Correia,
Counsel for the mother and stepfather of Joana Isabel Cipriano Guerreiro.





Caso Joana Cipriano - Esclarecimento

18 Março 2011


Marcos Aragão Correia, na qualidade de Advogado de Leonor Cipriano, na sequência do nosso primeiro comunicado divulgado no dia de hoje aos órgãos de comunicação social, vem por este meio esclarecer ao público o seguinte:


1º - Tal como foi por nós informado anteriormente (ver cópia em baixo), o acórdão do Tribunal da Relação de Évora que hoje foi divulgado, e que confirma na íntegra o acórdão do Tribunal de Júri sobre a tortura de que foi vítima Leonor Cipriano, não pode ser objecto de recurso, nos termos do disposto no artigo 400 do Código de Processo Penal;

2º - Dado que se esgotaram os meios de recurso a nível nacional, e considerada a decisão do Tribunal da Relação de Évora de confirmar na íntegra que Leonor Cipriano foi vítima de brutal tortura por parte de agentes da Polícia Judiciária portuguesa, condenando Gonçalo de Sousa Amaral e António Fernandes Nuno Cardoso a penas de prisão suspensa, e absolvendo os outros três arguidos, Leonor Cipriano irá agora fazer uso dos instrumentos internacionais ao seu dispor;

3º - Existiam duas possibilidades neste âmbito: Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos Humanos e Organização das Nações Unidas; contudo, as normas internacionais estabelecem a impossibilidade de recorrer a ambas as organizações a respeito dos mesmos exactos factos;

4º - Deste modo, dado que já decorreram cerca de 7 anos desde a tortura de que Leonor Cipriano foi vítima, e constatando o facto de que o Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos Humanos tem uma média aproximada, para resolução dos casos, de 5 anos, apresenta-se como mais vantajoso, mesmo que com isso não seja conseguida uma indemnização monetária, levar o caso á Organização das Nações Unidas, até porque este organismo tem um maior peso institucional, uma maior abrangência global e uma maior visibilidade a nível internacional do que o primeiro organismo;

5º - Na sequência desta decisão, tanto Leonor Maria Domingos Cipriano (mãe de Joana Cipriano), como António Leandro David Silva (padrasto de Joana Cipriano), irão apresentar queixas formais contra Portugal, por tortura, ao Escritório do Alto Comissário das Nações Unidas para os Direitos Humanos (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx), com o objectivo de conseguirem a condenação do Estado Português por grave violação dos seus Direitos Humanos, nomeadamente os protegidos pela Convenção Contra a Tortura e outras Penas ou Tratamentos Cruéis, Desumanos ou Degradantes, de que Portugal é signatário, apelando ao Comité Contra a Tortura (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/) que investigue e condene o Estado Português, e ainda considere inadmissível, na sequência, a aceitação da candidatura de Portugal a membro do Conselho de Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas, tal como é pretensão do hipócrita governo português (http://www.dn.pt/Inicio/interior.aspx?content_id=1795478); para efeitos destas queixas, Leonor Cipriano e António Leandro já assinaram, ambos, procurações forenses com poderes especiais.


Funchal, 18 de Março de 2011.


Marcos Aragão Correia,
Advogado da mãe e do padrasto de Joana Isabel Cipriano Guerreiro.

Joana Cipriano case - Case of Portugal final

March 18, 2011


Marcos Aragão Correia, Leonor Cipriano's lawyer, in compliance with the manifest public interest that cover all cases of disappearances of children, and especially that of Joana Cipriano, hereby inform about the media:


1 - For us, today received the final judgment's Court of Appeal of Evora on all appeals, even by us in relation to the Court of Jury popular Judicial Court of Faro, which was about the brutal torture perpetrated by the Portuguese Judicial Police against Leonor Cipriano;


2 - The Court of Appeal in Évora considered all the evidence in the seat of the Court of first instance is amply sufficient to prove the existence of a serious crime of torture of Leonor Cipriano by police officers of the Portuguese State, in consequence declared rejected all the resources of defendants, including the intention to renew the same evidence;


3 - The Court of Appeal in Évora decided to keep the full ruling end of the first instance;


4 - This was confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Évora that:


a) Leonor Cipriano was brutally tortured by agents of the various Portuguese Judicial Police who remain unidentified;


b) Gonçalo Amaral de Sousa lied to the judiciary by claiming that Leonor Cipriano "fell down the stairs of the PJ in Faro and was not tortured," and is therefore condemned as a perpetrator of a crime of making false allegations to 1 year and 6 months of the sentence in prison, suspended for the same period (1 year and 6 months);


c) Antonio Fernandes Nuno Cardoso falsified documents in order to give the impression that Leonor Cipriano "fell down the stairs of the PJ in Faro and was not tortured," and is therefore condemned as a perpetrator of a crime of forgery of document to 2 years and 3 months imprisonment suspended for a period of two years;


5 - The Court of Appeal in Évora considered it not to aggravate the punishment of Gonçalo Amaral for this being a primary offender (no criminal record at the time of the crime) and also the same as being a retired police;


6 - Concrete This final decision of the Court of Appeal in Évora does not fit any more action at the national level, as provided by Article 400 of the Code of Criminal Procedure;


7 - As a result, Leonor Cipriano will introduce in the coming months a formal complaint against the Portuguese government to the United Nations for gross violation of the most basic human rights, calling for the condemnation and expulsion of Portugal's Human Rights Commission of the United Nations.


Funchal, 18 March 2011.


Marcos Aragão Correia,
Counsel for the mother and stepfather of Joana Isabel Cipriano Guerreiro.


Caso Joana Cipriano - Acórdão final de Portugal


18 Março 2011

Marcos Aragão Correia, Advogado de Leonor Cipriano, em cumprimento do manifesto interesse público que revestem todos os casos de desaparecimentos de crianças, e especialmente o de Joana Cipriano, vem por este meio informar, a respeito, os órgãos de comunicação social:


1º - Foi por nós hoje recebido o acórdão final do Tribunal da Relação de Évora sobre todos os recursos apresentados, inclusivamente por nós, em relação ao acórdão do Tribunal de Júri popular do Tribunal Judicial de Faro que versou sobre a brutal tortura perpetrada por agentes da Polícia Judiciária portuguesa contra Leonor Cipriano;

2º - O Tribunal da Relação de Évora considerou que toda a prova produzida em sede do Tribunal de primeira instância é amplamente suficiente para provar a existência de um grave crime de tortura contra Leonor Cipriano por parte de agentes da polícia do Estado Português, tendo em consequência declarado improcedentes todos os recursos dos arguidos, inclusivamente a pretensão dos mesmos de renovação de prova;

3º - O Tribunal da Relação de Évora decidiu manter na íntegra o acórdão final da primeira instância;

4º - Assim, foi confirmado pelo Tribunal da Relação de Évora que:

a) Leonor Cipriano foi brutalmente torturada por vários agentes da Polícia Judiciária portuguesa que permanecem não identificados;

b) Gonçalo de Sousa Amaral mentiu ao sistema judicial ao afirmar que Leonor Cipriano “caiu pelas escadas da PJ de Faro e não foi torturada“, sendo por isso condenado como autor de um crime de falsidade de depoimento a 1 ano e 6 meses de pena de prisão suspensa por igual período (1 ano e 6 meses);

c) António Fernandes Nuno Cardoso falsificou documentos no sentido de fazer crer que Leonor Cipriano “caiu pelas escadas da PJ de Faro e não foi torturada“, sendo por isso condenado como autor de um crime de falsificação de documento a 2 anos e 3 meses de pena de prisão suspensa por um período de 2 anos;

5º - O Tribunal da Relação de Évora considerou não ser de agravar a pena aplicada a Gonçalo Amaral por este ser um delinquente primário (não ter antecedentes criminais à data da prática do crime) e também pelo mesmo já estar reformado da polícia;

6º - Desta concreta decisão final do Tribunal da Relação de Évora não cabe mais nenhum recurso a nível nacional, tal como disposto pelo artigo 400 do Código de Processo Penal;

7º - Em consequência, Leonor Cipriano irá apresentar já nos próximos meses uma queixa formal contra o Estado Português à Organização das Nações Unidas por violação grosseira dos mais básicos Direitos Humanos, pedindo a condenação e expulsão de Portugal da Comissão dos Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas.


Funchal, 18 de Março de 2011.

Marcos Aragão Correia,
Advogado da mãe e do padrasto de Joana Isabel Cipriano Guerreiro.

Amaral won't be a Primary Offender when he's tried for beating up Leandro Silva.

That should be a bit of fun. For us.

I dont quite know what to say other than at last justice has prevailed.

And did anyone notice the irony of trying to appeal to the Court of Human Rights when you have been convicted of covering up torture?

Now that it is proven that torture occurred to get Leonore to confess, is her conviction found unsafe, and another trial held?

WOW, is he actually going to jail?

I truly hope so, because that is what amaral deserves.

Gonc does not go to gaol, he has a suspended sentence. But this is still a conviction and the suspended sentence is most likely due to his being a first time offender (primary offender I think in the transalation).

Gonçalo Amaral de Sousa lied to the judiciary by claiming that Leonor Cipriano "fell down the stairs of the PJ in Faro and was not tortured," and is therefore condemned as a perpetrator of a crime of making false allegations to 1 year and 6 months of the sentence in prison, suspended for the same period (1 year and 6 months);

How can he claim something when the evidences are against him.

The Beast of Portimao - Goncalo Amaral (GA) - knows that the law does not allow anymore appeals since the appeal court confirmed all the verdict of the Judicial Court of Faro. So, the case is finished inside the Portuguese judicial system. When Marcos sends this to the United Nations, I hope they win their case.

But it’s now definitively guaranteed and proven according with the Portuguese courts that:

-Leonor Cipriano was brutally tortured by Portuguese police officers commanded by GA;

- GA is officially a liar;

- GA is convicted to 1 year and 6 months of jail suspended for the same amount of time;

- GA is officially a delinquent and must be accompanied by the institution responsible for monitoring the suspended jail sentences: if he commits another crime during 1 year and 6 months counting from now, he will have to serve in jail the 1 year and 6 months he was convicted for perjury;

- Since GA is now a registered delinquent convicted to a jail sentence, he can not become a lawyer.
This are very good news indeed, not only for us, the parents of Joana Cipriano, but also for the parents of Madeleine McCann,
GA was already giving interviews last Friday commemorating his most recent victory against Madeleine parents concerning his book temporary ban Isabel Duarte unfortunately (not by her fault) lost her final appeal last week and now the book of GA is now on sell again.
GA was telling all the press that he trusts the Portuguese courts because they are democratic and work very well.
After he said that, Marcos news was divulged and he shut up immediately.

Of course, the “democratic courts work very well” in which GA trusts said finally, there is no possibility of anymore appeals, that GA is a officially a convicted LIAR!

I still don't understand why they refused Leonor a new trial.
As far as I can tell she was tortured and there's no real evidence against her.

We can only be glad GA is no longer part of the PJ. Let's hope the PJ gets rid of all like-minded officers. People like that are a disgrace for the profession, a disgrace for their country.

i find it hard to swallow though,that he is the only one??Or have i missed something??Its just that forgive me for sounding a bit dum here but he might very well of been the leader of dick heads in this case but if he was covering things up(which he was) weren't any of his colleges doing their jobs correctly?Because if they were investigating the case properly as professionals then surly they would of got to the bottom of it?Or was gonc the only police officer in Portugal to be investigating it? odd!!!! totally confusing to because it shouldn't of come to all this in the first place.Who the hell was investigating this case along side gonc??And why the hell weren't they questioning his actions? I know more than one officer tortured leonor,but im not sure how many actually covered up and lied though(not that it excuses their behavior).What i mean is were all these officers aware that leonor was telling the truth??If so why were they lying?Have they disclosed that yet??There as to be a reason as to why they covered this up and id like to know why?Not sure if thats been released because i haven't followed the leonor case closely for some times so.

My friend, I think Marcos is the right person to answer to your question.

As for amaral being the only police officer in Portugal to be investigating it? No, that´s not true, the pj have several offices in Lisbon, Porto, through the whole Portugal, with much more capable police officers, better themn amaral.

But because the abduction happened in Algarve, that was the pj who was in charge of the investigation.

What really ###### me off, is this: the pj knows the s### amaral really is, also knows the s### he did in the cipriano case, and allowed him to be (at that time) the person in charge of an abduction investigation, which he clearly had neither the knowledge nor the expertise about any abduction investigations, and worse, allowed him (at a certain point, which explains, in my opinion, why he was sacked, although to late because the damage had been done by amaral´s sick behaviour, because amaral should never had been allowed to touch in everything related to this abduction investigation) to behave with his disgusting behaviour, allowed him to say the s### he did, coming from his dirty mouth, and then, to write books of lies, with the purpose of illegal profit, together with lies, smears, verbal offenses, at the expenses of the innocents he betrayed?

Had amaral showed the same commitment he did with his lies, with the books of lies he wrote, in solving the case, the golden hours were not lost, and what could be solved in a matter of minutes or between one hour or two, is now almost four years, because of his only guilty disgusting behaviour. And, sadly, those who allowed him to get in touch with everyting about that abduction investigation are also responsible.

And that my friends, sadly, it is an undeniable fact.

I also remember that, when the pj of Lisbon was called to help in the investigation, Paulo Rebelo was so furious (he himself admitted) by the way the pj at Algarve conducted the investigation. And I´m not a bit surprised that amaral, tried to force Rebelo to follow amaral´s sick ideas, but because Rebelo didn´t followed what amaral told, I wonder if amaral thought: you don´t follow my orders, I´m going to jeopardize your (Rebelo´s) investigation.

Besides, Rebelo had no obligation of following amaral´s orders, he was not under the coordination / orders of amaral.

And I´ll bet that Mr. Olegário Sousa felt the same from amaral.

The fact that Rebelo didn't discuss the case with Amaral tells me all I need to know of what Rebelo thought of the investigation.
Amaral said himself that he thought this was strange. He must have been the only one who did. The rest of us weren't in the least bit surprised.

Pedro Silva wrote:My friend, I think Marcos is the right person to answer to your question.

As for amaral being the only police officer in Portugal to be investigating it? No, that´s not true, the pj have several offices in Lisbon, Porto, through the whole Portugal, with much more capable police officers, better themn amaral.

But because the abduction happened in Algarve, that was the pj who was in charge of the investigation.

What really ###### me off, is this: the pj knows the s### amaral really is, also knows the s### he did in the cipriano case, and allowed him to be (at that time) the person in charge of an abduction investigation, which he clearly had neither the knowledge nor the expertise about any abduction investigations, and worse, allowed him (at a certain point, which explains, in my opinion, why he was sacked, although to late because the damage had been done by amaral´s sick behaviour, because amaral should never had been allowed to touch in everything related to this abduction investigation) to behave with his disgusting behaviour, allowed him to say the s### he did, coming from his dirty mouth, and then, to write books of lies, with the purpose of illegal profit, together with lies, smears, verbal offenses, at the expenses of the innocents he betrayed?

Had amaral showed the same commitment he did with his lies, with the books of lies he wrote, in solving the case, the golden hours were not lost, and what could be solved in a matter of minutes or between one hour or two, is now almost four years, because of his only guilty disgusting behaviour. And, sadly, those who allowed him to get in touch with everyting about that abduction investigation are also responsible.

And that my friends, sadly, it is an undeniable fact.

christabel wrote:The Beast of Portimao - Goncalo Amaral (GA) - knows that the law does not allow anymore appeals since the appeal court confirmed all the verdict of the Judicial Court of Faro. So, the case is finished inside the Portuguese judicial system. When Marcos sends this to the United Nations, I hope they win their case.

But it’s now definitively guaranteed and proven according with the Portuguese courts that:

-Leonor Cipriano was brutally tortured by Portuguese police officers commanded by GA;

- GA is officially a liar;

- GA is convicted to 1 year and 6 months of jail suspended for the same amount of time;

- GA is officially a delinquent and must be accompanied by the institution responsible for monitoring the suspended jail sentences: if he commits another crime during 1 year and 6 months counting from now, he will have to serve in jail the 1 year and 6 months he was convicted for perjury;

- Since GA is now a registered delinquent convicted to a jail sentence, he can not become a lawyer.
This are very good news indeed, not only for us, the parents of Joana Cipriano, but also for the parents of Madeleine McCann,
GA was already giving interviews last Friday commemorating his most recent victory against Madeleine parents concerning his book temporary ban Isabel Duarte unfortunately (not by her fault) lost her final appeal last week and now the book of GA is now on sell again.
GA was telling all the press that he trusts the Portuguese courts because they are democratic and work very well.
After he said that, Marcos news was divulged and he shut up immediately.

Of course, the “democratic courts work very well” in which GA trusts said finally, there is no possibility of anymore appeals, that GA is a officially a convicted LIAR!

If he gets found guilty of Beating Leandro or covering it up....Will he got to JAIL?

And at least he can't become a Lawyer thats one small mercy!

Poor poor Madeleine that HE EVER GOT PUT IN CHARGE OF HER CASE....

YES he will Cat, any offence committed after this means the sentence will come into immediate effect.
I can't wait to see him behind bars, with some of those he set up