Far from reacting with good sense, sensitivity and compassion in the case of the woman beaten with a nail-spiked club for having an affair, the President of the Supreme Court, António Henriques Gaspar, today warned that the public outcry against the suspended sentences given on appeal to her two aggressors, does not help her defence.

While referring directly to the case that has marked a part of Portugal’s judicial system as little more than a bigoted Star Chamber, Gaspar clearly warned the public to stay out of things that it does not understand.

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