“He said he would cut my ears off”: tortured maid remembers the terror she experienced – Portugal



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He cried throughout the testimony before the group of judges of the Court of Matosinhos. The cleaner who was tortured for 10 hours by the ‘queen of drugs’, from the Pinheiro Torres neighborhood, in Porto, and by her former partner, recalled this Tuesday the terror she experienced on June 2, 2016. “I was attacked with a key to remove the wheels of the car and with the lever of a windshield. They put me in seawater for an hour and the defendant still went to get a knife and said he was going to cut my ears, ”he said.

The origin of the violent crime, committed in various places in Oporto, Gaia and Matosinhos, was the fact that the accused, who is a hairdresser, her son and her ex-partner, asked the victim to keep a bag of drugs for them. . The maid agreed to do so and hid the product behind a cupboard in the house itself. I would receive 100 euros in return. However, the product disappeared. During the torture, to confess where the drug was, the victim lost consciousness. “I no longer had the strength. I could not even feel my body. At a viewpoint in Crestuma, two masked women approached us and one gave me a taser gun to the head and I lost consciousness,” he recalled in court.
At the beginning of the trial, the ‘queen’, 43, the ‘ex’, 44, and their son, 24, refused to comment. They are free and are responsible for aggravated kidnapping, coercion and drug trafficking. Only mother and son benefited at least 56 thousand euros from the crime.



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