Supreme Reduces Penalty to the Man Who Killed a Woman Hit in Port

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Last January, the defendant was sentenced, in the Court of São João Novo, in Porto, for a crime of murder, to 16 years in prison and to the payment of compensation of 150,000 euros to the parents of the victim

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The Supreme reduced the sentence after re-assessing the circumstances in which the crime occurred

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The judges councillors decided to proceed with a change in the de facto matter, proving that moments before the fatal assault the defendant and the victim had been using drugs, an amendment that, for the STJ, "has an undeniable impact on the determination of the penalty measure".