Marco de Sousa Caneira, 43, is now in Faro prison
Music producer – and son of well-known Portuguese singer Ágata – Marco de Sousa Caneira has been arrested after reports that he was harassing minors in a playground in the Algarve.
Caneira, 43, was arrested yesterday – and as a consequence “it emerged that he had been sentenced to six and half years in jail for raping a 14-year-old in the Azores” – which he has yet to serve.
GNR police called to the scene in Castro Marim have handed the case over to PJ judicial police, while Caneira has already been “sent to Faro prison”, writes SIC Notícias.
SIC explains that Caneira was sentenced for the rape (committed at the end of a popular festival in the Azores) in 2016, by the court of Ponta Delgada. He then appealed – but the Court of Appeal confirmed that the rape had been proven.
Caneira however never served his sentence: a warrant had to be issued for his arrest, which is how police ‘put two and two together’ yesterday, and why Marco de Sousa Caneira is now in jail.
natasha.donn@algarveresident.com
