He’s been dodging the sentence for years, but time finally appears to be up for Manuel Godinho, the ‘Scrap Metal King of Ovar’ and key player in the Face Oculta investigation that is at last seeing ‘all those condemned’ filing into the country’s jails.
Aveiro court has reportedly issued a warrant for Godinho’s arrest, with the order that he must pay the State €350,000 within the next 10 days.
It’s not immediately clear however where Godinho is. For a time following his convictions he lived in Brazil, although tabloid Correio da Manhã suggests he is back in Portugal now and has assured all those asking that he won’t be trying to evade justice.
Godinho is the fourth Face Oculta defendant to be ‘obliged’ to serve the jail term facing him. Reduced from the original 17-and-a-half years to 13 years, CM writes that this could be further reduced to just four-and-a-half years depending on ‘good behaviour’, as many of the crimes for which Godinho was originally sentenced have now exceeded time-limits stipulated under Portuguese law.
Fellow defendants Armando Vara, Manuel Guiomar and João Tavares all recently conceded they had reached the end of the line of the appeals process and presented themselves at the gates of different jails.
By natasha.donn@algarveresident.com
Article by kind permission of https://www.portugalresident.com
Comments
Rape is a terrible and terrifying crime and therefore it should be commented on with accuracy and honesty.
However, part of dierdres comment appeared to be designed to Cause insult and pain.
HMM.
Emma. If the young girl was held against her will and raped. Then the justice system here has failed not only her but every female in this country. God forbid it becomes open season on young women because the law doesn't act..
Is, what she wrote completely accurate or not ! !
Anyone can take a fact and make a STORY out of it by adding lies and inaccuracies to it.
From reading the first part of her comment, which is completely untrue, I have come to the conclusion that this person would "not let the truth stand in the way of a good story."
What a load of nonsense.
https://www.portugalresident.com/2019/02/27/british-rape-victim-describes-horror-as-laughing-culprit-walks-free/
Could you confirm if diedre's comment on British hitchhikers is true, I have not tead this anywhere.
What are you on ... speed ... you are not making sense lovey.