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Joana Isabel Cipriano (born 31 May 1996) disappeared on 12 September 2004 from Figueira, a village near Portimão in the Algarve region of Portugal. An investigation by the ''Polícia Judiciária'', Portugal's criminal police, concluded that she had been murdered by her mother, Leonor Cipriano, and her mother's brother, João Cipriano, after witnessing them engaged in incestuous sex. Her body was never found.〔Paul Hamilos and Brendan de Beer, ("Detective leading hunt for Madeleine sacked after blast at UK police" ), ''The Guardian'', 3 October 2007.〕 The mother and uncle confessed to police in October 2004; the uncle said he had cut the girl's body into pieces before disposing of it somewhere in Spain.〔("Prosecution unveils horror of girl’s death" ), ''The Portugal News'', 14 May 2005.〕 Joana's mother withdrew her confession the day after signing it, alleging that she had been beaten during a 48-hour-long interrogation. The police officers accounted for the bruising on the mother's face and body by maintaining that she had thrown herself down some stairs in the police station in an effort to commit suicide.〔David Rose, ("Lies, beatings, secret trials: the dark side of police handling Madeleine case" ), ''The Daily Mail'', 16 September 2007. *David Rose, ("Madeleine: Police on trial for torturing mother of another missing girl" ), ''The Daily Mail'', 16 September 2007.〕 Both the mother and uncle were convicted of murder and sentenced to 16 years in jail.〔 It was the first murder trial in Portuguese legal history to take place without the discovery of a body.〔Alex Watts, ("'Disturbing Similarities' With Madeleine" ), Sky News, 12 May 2008.〕 Five officers were charged with a variety of offences as a result of the allegations of assault; three were acquitted.〔Fiona Govan, ("The detectives working as the world watches" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 28 May 2007. *Caroline Gammell, ("Detective accused in case of missing girl" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 17 September 2007. *Fabiola Antezana, ("Detective in McCann Case Investigated For Beating Convicted Child Murderer" ), ABC News, 26 September 2007.〕 One of the two officers who was convicted, Chief Inspector Gonçalo Amaral, led the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British girl who went missing in May 2007 from the nearby resort of Praia da Luz. Amaral was not present during the alleged assault, but was accused of having covered up for other officers; he was convicted of perjury in May 2009 for having falsified documents in the case and received an 18-month suspended sentence.〔("McCann detective guilty of perjury" ), Press Association, 22 May 2009.〕 Several similarities between the cases – both girls vanished without trace within seven miles and less than three years of each other, in both cases officers failed to secure the crime scene, both mothers mounted campaigns to find their daughters and both women were accused of involvement – prompted Joana's family to appeal in 2008 for police to investigate whether there was a link between the disappearances.〔 ==Disappearance and charges== Joana, eight years old at the time, was last seen at around 8 pm on the evening she disappeared, after being sent to buy milk and a tin of tuna from a local store. A neighbour saw her around 200 yards from her house, walking back from the store. Her mother launched a local campaign to find her daughter, distributing posters around the neighbourhood.〔 The prosecution argued that Joana was killed because she had seen her mother and João Cipriano, her mother's brother, having sex. Leonor Cipriano confessed to killing her daughter after nearly 48 hours of continuous interrogation. Her brother confessed to having assaulted Joana, and said he had cut her body into small pieces, placed her inside a fridge, then put the fridge inside an old car that was taken to Spain to be crushed and burned.〔 When he was asked if he had sexually abused her, he said, "I did not harm her, I only killed her."〔Sara Marques, ("Eu não lhe fiz mal, só a matei" ), ''IOLDiário'', 5 September 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Disappearance of Joana Cipriano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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