Castro Verde: Smuggler sentenced to 4 years and 10 months of effective penalty.
A man of 53 year old, native of Castro Verde, He was sentenced yesterday 4 years and 10 months of effective imprisonment, um crime by drug trafficking, continuing awaiting trial in custody.
Paulo Matos, old emigrant in Germany, He was arrested by GNR in December 2016, He was accused of selling heroin, situation which according Mariana Piçarra, Judge President of the Collective of the Court of Beja, It was given as proven "by testimonies of witnesses / consumers", whose facts were "accepted" by the accused.
Despite not having a criminal record the magistrate considered that the penalty would not be suspended because "the community has to have an effective criminal justice response", explaining that "is not safeguarding the possibility of returning to crime", concluded.
Maria Piçarra, maintained that the conviction of the court to keep Paulo Matos in custody and meet the 4 years and 10 months of effective penalty, because the trial "presented a posture of desculpabilização, denying the evidence of eavesdropping and code language ", finished.
The accused collected to the prison Beja, where you will wait for the final judgment of the worth and fulfillment.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
