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The preliminary autopsy result of the boy from Atouguia da Baleia, in the municipality of Peniche, points to a violent death, with head injuries and signs of suffocation, a police source told Lusa.
The boy, who was found dead in the Serra D’el Rei, in Peniche, Leiria district, died violently, see the preliminary results of the autopsy, which ended late today.
Although there is evidence of suffocation, the 9-year-old boy is said to have been assaulted in several places, causing several injuries, including to his head, according to a police source.
It is still unknown whether either of these attacks caused death or both situations at the same time, as the causes of death will only be confirmed after laboratory tests.
This is not yet the final autopsy report, but only a preliminary examination.
The 9-year-old boy, who had been missing since Thursday, after his father denounced the GNR, was found dead on Sunday by the Judicial Police (PJ).
After about three days of searching, the PC of Leiria arrested, on Sunday, the father and the stepmother of the minor, whose body was found in a forest in the Serra D’el Rei, also in the municipality of Peniche, covered in bushes .
Later, the two suspects were with the inspectors in the house where the alleged murder occurred, in Atouguia da Baleia, and in the forest where the body was transported, to reconstruct the alleged crime.
Inspectors are still taking additional steps to gather evidence that the crime was committed by the boy’s father and stepmother on Wednesday.
“We are checking [o cenário da morte], but, of course, it must have happened in some context of violence, “said, at a press conference on Sunday, the coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of PJ de Leiria, Fernando Jordão, emphasizing that,” in the beginning, ” it would have been accidental death
Fernando Jordão said that the death occurred “due to internal problems in the family’s functioning”, and he refused to reveal more information.
Convinced that the victim was murdered inside the house, the PJ chief said he did not know if the other three children, “11/12 years, 4 years and one with months”, who were at home, had seen something. .
However, the PJ heard the oldest son, as well as the main suspects, the father, 32, and the stepmother, 38.
The boy’s body was found mid-morning Sunday, but the PJ refused to confirm whether it was the father and stepmother who indicated the place where the victim was left.
The suspects will be present for the first judicial interrogation at the Leiria Judicial Court on Tuesday morning.
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