Three nuns detained for suspected abuse at childrens’ care home
Nuns accused of physical and psychological abuse Three nuns have been arrested on suspicion of abuse at a juvenile care home in Vila Viçosa, in Portugal’s eastern Alentejo region. The
Teen arrested in Peniche over murder of sister
A 16-year-old girl has been arrested over the disappearance almost a month ago of her elder sister from the home both shared with their father in Peniche. The sister’s body
Clóvis Abreu, missing suspect in police agent’s violent death, to hand himself in
Abreu expected to report to DIAP on Saturday Clóvis Abreu, the missing suspect in the violent beating to death of PSP agent Fábio Guerra in March last year, is expected
Woman found dead after burglars raid Alenquer home
A 42-year-old woman died following a violent burglarly in the home she shared with her father in the borough of Alenquer. According to reports, two men burst into the house
Mother of murdered Jéssica appeals life sentence
Inês Sanches, handed the maximum jail sentence permitted in Portugal for the horrific murder of her three-year-old daughter, “wants to be freed from jail”: Tabloid Correio da Manhã writes that
11-year-old orphaned in latest murder-suicide horror
An 11 year old boy has been orphaned in the latest murder-suicide horror to hit the headlines. Already this year 13 other women and one seven-year-old child have been killed
Arsonist crackdown: 803 suspects are under investigation
This year, 803 suspects have been identified in Portugal in relation to fires, which are being investigated, and the GNR and PJ police forces have made 90 arrests, minister for
Horror in Lagoa café
A man in his 50s is reported to have attacked clients in a Lagoa café in the early hours of Monday morning, ostensibly because the owner said it was time
Arson in Leiria: mayor claims ‘there is a criminal on loose’
“He/ she is living among us” … and has been for last decade The number of fires starting at unlikely times and often almost in unison in the municipality of
Condemned to 25 years for child’s murder, all four defendants ‘plan to appeal’
In the words of Correio da Manhã today, “they have nothing to lose”: it appears all four people sent to jail for 25 years for the appalling murder of a