2 IN COURT OVER TOURIST MURDER; Brazilians accused of robbing &killing Ulster businessman.Byline: TOM WORDEN TWO men appeared in a Portuguese court yesterday accused of killing Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. businessman Paul Houston. Police arrested the pair, aged 19 and 26, on suspicion of homicide homicide (hŏm`əsīd), in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder, otherwise it is called manslaughter. and robbery on Wednesday. Mr Houston, 51, was attacked as he made his way home from a bar in seaside town Alvor on the Algarve. The father of four, who was on holiday with his wife and two friends, was found with severe head wounds in the early hours of Sunday, September 6. The Judicial Police launched a manhunt man·hunt n. An organized, extensive search for a person, usually a fugitive criminal. manhunt Noun an organized search, usually by police, for a wanted man or fugitive Noun 1. which ended with the arrest of the two men, who are thought to be Brazilian nationals. Detectives claimed they had been preparing to flee Portugal and were in possession of travel tickets. Local reports said they had airline tickets to Brazil. The men appeared before a judge at a court in the nearby town of Portimao yesterday. They gave statements to the judge in a hearing behind closed doors. The judge will decide whether to remand To send back. A higher court may remand a case to a lower court so that the lower court will take a certain action ordered by the higher court. A prisoner who is remanded into custody is sent back to prison subsequent to a Preliminary Hearing before a tribunal or magistrate them in custody or release them on bail ahead of a trial. A spokeswoman for the Judicial Police said: "Two men were arrested on suspicion of homicide and robbery. "They were taken to the court in Portimao and began making their statements to the judge. In homicide cases it is more usual for suspects to be remanded in custody. "The arrests followed a lengthy and meticulous police investigation." Mr Houston had been on an annual golf holiday with wife Celine and friends Philip and Marian Devlin. The couples had enjoyed dinner together in a local restaurant hours but the Derryman was alone when he was attacked by the waterside. A postmortem postmortem /post·mor·tem/ (post-mort´im) performed or occurring after death. post·mor·tem adj. Relating to or occurring during the period after death. n. See autopsy. at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Portimao revealed he had died from blows to the head. Police were known to be hunting two Brazilians seen in the area before Mr Houston was found. Fisherman Ernesto Marau told police he overheard two Brazilian men discussing "killing that guy". Thousands packed St Mary's church in Ballybrack, Co Donegal, for Mr Houston's funeral mass on Monday. He was the president of Greencastle Golf Club in Co Donegal. CAPTION(S): VICTIM Paul Houston |
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