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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 approximately 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 reviewing (the death scene), but of course it must have happened in a context of violence,” the coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the PJ of Leiria, Fernando Jordão, said in a press conference on Sunday, emphasizing that “in the beginning” would not have been an accidental death.
Fernando Jordão said that the death occurred “for internal reasons of the family’s functioning”, refusing 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 old, 4 years old and one with months”, who were at home, would have 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.
See also:
PJ excludes hypothesis of accident in case of boy found dead in Peniche
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