Brit charged after man stabbed to death at festival in Portugal | X924496 | 2024-04-11 11:08:01
A 28-year-old British man faces trial in Portugal over the dying of a visitor at a mini-festival he organised in a remote woodland.
Native police say the sufferer, a 37-year-old man, was lured away from the pageant website, stabbed a number of occasions with 'exceptional violence' and hidden beneath branches in a clearing in September.
Josh Menkens, who was holding the primary version of the 'Mad Hatter's Tea Get together' occasion, was arrested the next day and has now been indicted for homicide and 'desecration of a corpse'.
He was initially remanded in custody in jail following the event, which happened in a brand new age commune in Pedrogao Grande.
Following a psychiatric evaluation, an area courtroom requested he be moved to a psychiatric hospital.
Portuguese investigators advised The Occasions that Menkens was discovered to have 'suffered from a … psychotic episode [or] psychosis'.
They added that 'some witnesses stated in their testimony that Joshua had taken exhausting medicine in the course of the occasion'.
The sufferer is just not believed to have been recognized to Menkens, who is the son of an Australian businessman from Watford. Detectives haven't speculated on the motive.
In a previous assertion, the Policia Judiciaria stated: 'The defendant, a foreigner and organizer of a celebration on a rural property, took the sufferer to an isolated forest location the place, armed with a knife, he attacked him with uncommon violence, stabbing him in several elements of the physique and causing his dying.
'After committing the homicide, the suspect hid the physique using tree branches and items of clothing.'
The valley the place the Mad Hatter's Tea Celebration passed off is owned by Brit Xavier Hancock and his Spanish associate Arantxa Atauri.
They launched the Libelinha Enterprise commune, which is concentrated on reforestation 'to start out their journey in the direction of a sustainable way of life'.
There isn't any suggestion the couple have been in any method concerned in the stabbing within the early hours of Sunday morning.
A promo for the pageant, which was because of run from September 20 to 24, described it as a 'gathering crammed with nice music and incredible souls' and urged those planning to attend: 'Show love, kindness, and respect to ourselves, each other, and the land.'
Tickets value €50 (£43) and included four nights of tenting on website, although visitors got the supply of upgrade 'glamping' options costing up to £120.
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