A man being interviewed about the harrowing murder of a 9-year-old girl did so wearing a cabbage leaf over his face to 'protect' from coronavirus.
The journalist makes no mention of the makeshift face mask as he quizzes him on camera for Portuguese TV. His interviewee, a neighbour of the victim's family, was being asked about Valentina Fonseca, whose body was found covered by shrubs in a field two weeks ago in Peniche, Portugal.
Her dad, 32, and step-mum, 38, were later arrested on suspicion of homicide and hiding a cadaver, following a major police search for the missing child.
Valentina had been reported missing in Peniche on Thursday, May 7 and her body was found three days later. The neighbour described the arrested couple as “very