Man accused of kidnapping two women in the Algarve denies accusations By TPN/Lusa, in Algarve, Crime · 03-03-2021 13:11:00 · 0 Comments
According to the prosecution, a Brazilian woman and a British woman were held for several days in the defendant s house in Loulé
A 36-year-old Portuguese-Canadian accused of kidnapping and raping two women in the Algarve has denied the accusations in a two and a half hour hearing in Faro court yesterday. The man said he met the women in May 2019 in a strip club in Vilamoura, where they worked, and in which he said he was planning to invest. According to the prosecution, a Brazilian woman and a British woman were held for several days in the defendant s house in Loulé, where they were allegedly raped, assaulted and received death threats. The defendant denies all accusations.
Algarve kidnapping and murder trial begins today
The Court of Portimão will start the hearing of two young women suspected of having kidnapped and killed a young man, before then dismembering his body in March 2020
The defendants, a nurse and a security guard, are accused by the Public Ministry (MP) of the crimes of qualified homicide, desecration of a human corpse, two crimes of illegitimate access, one of computer fraud, simple theft and use of a vehicle.
According to the indictment, the women attracted Diogo Gonçalves, 21, to the home of one of them, where they kept him captive in order to extort money from him, since he had received €70,000 in compensation following the death of his mother, who had been the victim of a hit run in the Albufeira area in 2016.