Israeli criminal group routed in Operation Ozark
PJ police take part in Europe-wide swoop Fifteen people have been arrested in a Europe-wide operation targeting an Israeli criminal group, which may well have operated in Portugal. PJ police
Searches underway for top half of body dumped in rubbish bin
Lower half of body discovered by bin collection workers in Lisbon The search is on today for the ‘missing’ top half of a body, discovered dumped in a rubbish bin
Young offenders held in remand centres highest since 2022
The number of young offenders interned in remand centres in Portugal has reached its highest figure since 2022, totalling 136, most of them aged between 15 and 17, according to
“Dangerous Canadian trafficker” arrested in Lisbon hotel
Roobens Denis, 31: ‘right-hand of boss of Blood Mafia Family’ The purported ‘right hand’ of the boss of a Quebec cocaine trafficking gang in a bloody war with Hells Angels
Former banker’s eight year jail term ‘confirmed’ – but unlikely to be enforced
Judges open door to sentence ‘suspension’ due to Alzheimer’s The agonising saga of whether or not former BES banking president Ricardo Salgado should go to jail for his crimes –
Madeira deviant killer priest defrocked after 31 years
Pope Francis has decreed the defrocking of Father Frederico Cunha, who in 1993 was sentenced in Madeira to 13 years in prison for the murder and sexual abuse of a
Portuguese woman feared ‘dead in suitcase’ turns up alive, and ‘aggressive’
The morbid mystery of trying to establish the identity of the ‘body in the suitcase’ discovered in Spanish Galicia is moving on apace. It is not the missing mother from
Funeral agent caught in Loulé death certificate scheme
Both men are awaiting trial A funeral agent in Loulé has been caught in a scheme which involved a doctor issuing death certificates remotely without carrying out an autopsy. According
Traffic stop catches Portuguese man wanted for kidnap
30-year-old man sought by authorities in Switzerland over two ‘kidnappings’ A Portuguese national has been arrested following a routine traffic stop in Spain. His identification papers flagged up the fact
Second Portuguese family desperate for confirmation of body found in suitcase
Isabel Lima, 42, last seen camping with ‘foreign pilgrim’ in Vigo A second Portuguese family is waiting desperately for further forensic information on the body of a woman, discovered badly decomposed