Destroyed, she always chose the back entrance to the yard. But this Friday, Sarah’s mother did it through the main door. Without her former partner Tony Carreira, Fernanda was a mirror of pain and suffering. In the courtroom, he could not hide his emotions. Washed with tears, she heard in the voice of lawyer Christina Branko new assumptions about what happened.
“Sarah may not have been wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident and that may have contributed to what happened,” Carmo Afonso said. These words pierced Fernanda’s heart like an arrow.
This Friday, the defendants had the last opportunity to apologize to Sarah’s parents, but no one did. The judge finally allowed them to speak out for the last time, but only Thiago Pacheco wanted to justify how he crashed into the jeep driven by Ivo.
Tony Carreira’s lawyer, Magalhães e Silva, believes that if the accused had apologized to the family, “social peace would have been achieved more quickly, which will now only happen after the verdict.”
Tony Carreira never wanted to see the accused behind bars and does not want compensation for the death of his daughter. He was simply looking for answers to grief. And an apology that never came.