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Leiria’s judicial police suspect that Valentina’s murder was caused by “Useless reasons“Linked to” family problems. “The discussion last Wednesday afternoon that took place at the house of his father, Sandro Bernardo, and his stepmother, Márcia, in Atouguia da Baleia (Peniche), ended badly, with the death of the 12-year-old boy Expresso knows that the father “did not deny the crimes” to the inspectors and that the stepmother “confirmed some of the facts” advanced by the PJ during the interrogation.
The investigation has strong indications that the perpetrator of the crime had “some intention of being violent towards the child”, but seems to rule out that it was a premeditated murder.
The autopsy will shed light on how the boy died, but the PC has strong indications that Valentina lost her life in one of the rooms of the house located in Bairro do Capitão, probably in the bathroom. The body was later transported in a Renault, which belongs to Sandro Bernardo, pto the forest at the end of the day. All with the complicity of the stepmother. The couple will have jointly planned the best way to hide the body, which was left in an eucalyptus in Serra d’el Rei, a few kilometers from the residence. “Valentina will have already left the corpse in her father’s house,” a PJ source tells Expresso.
The girl’s body was found four days after her death, after an operation that involved More than 600 active elements, in an area covered by almost 4 thousand hectares, covered more than once in some places. The PJ had the help of GNR, PSP, firefighters, Civil Protection and even explorers.
The two suspects were arrested for the evidence of qualified homicide and concealment of a corpse. This Tuesday morning they are heard by an investigating judge at the Leiria Court who will determine the enforcement measures to be applied.
