A PORTUGUESE mechanic has been spared jail despite confessing to the horrific rape of a British hitchhiker on the Algarve.
Tiago Curado de Sousa, 33, received a four-and-a-half year suspended prison sentence after being formally convicted over the attack.
He was also ordered to pay his 24-year-old victim, who was trying to get to Faro Airport for a flight back home after attending a festival, £1,750 in compensation.
Curado de Sousa admitted forcing himself on the tourist at a one-day trial at a court in the holiday resort of Lagos.
The court heard how he agreed to take his victim to Lagos in his tow truck after spotting her by the side of a main road running through nearby Aljezur on April 14 last year with a sign on it saying “Faro”.
Instead of helping her as promised, he pulled over 10 miles down the road on the pretext he had to collect a broken-down vehicle, walked round to the passenger side and exposed himself while saying: “Come on baby” in English.
The indictment said: “As the woman refused his sexual proposition, he used physical force and grabbed her by the shoulders to pull her from the vehicle and take her to the back of the tow truck.
“Using physical force again, he turned her over on his side and made her lie down.”
Prosecutors said he raped her twice without any protection, once anally, during his horrific attack, insisting: “He knew he was acting against her wishes but it didn’t stop him from pursuing his intentions.
“He knew his behaviour was illegal and banned by law.”
Although there was no mention of it in the indictment, sources close to the case said he fell to his knees during the sex attack and apologised to his victim before going to police to confess to his crime and take them to the spot where he had raped the British woman.
Curado de Sousa’s victim, a chef who is now receiving counselling, gave evidence by video-link at the one-day trial earlier this month. Sentencing took place during a separate court session on Wednesday.
The British woman’s lawyer Miguel Teixeira said afterwards he would need to speak to his client before deciding whether to appeal.
But he added: “There was a full confession so a sentence of this kind was to be expected.”
He said: “She is receiving psychological support in England. She has been left very traumatised by what happened.
“It was her first trip to Portugal. She came here with a group of friends for a concert and was on her way back to Faro Airport to catch a flight home when it happened.
“Basically she was on holiday.”
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The hearing and sentencing took place behind-closed-doors as is customary in Portugal in cases involving alleged sex crimes.
Prosecutors were seeking a prison sentence of more than five years before his court confession.
In Portugal rape is punishable by up to ten years in prison.
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