21-year-old Eugénio Reicha was accused of stabbing 58-year-old Simon Carley-Pocock to death with a spear at the victim’s home in Alcoutim, in April last year, and stealing his car before being caught by police.

He was sentenced by Faro court earlier today after reportedly having confessed to the crimes early on in the investigation. He is also understood to have shown friends pictures of the murder in the hours after it took place.

Briton Simon Carley-Pocock, 58, was found dead at his white-washed, stone-walled cottage in Serro da Vinha, Pereiro, near the border town of Alcoutim, by GNR police during the early hours of the morning of Tuesday 5 April 2016.
GNR officers had gone to the rural property at the request of the PSP police after they pulled over the victim’s suspected killer for driving erratically and found him to be driving without a licence.
Eugénio Filipe Reicha, then age 20, was stopped by PSP police while driving Carley-Pocock’s Audi A4. Suspecting the vehicle had been stolen, PSP police requested GNR officers visit the Briton’s property, where they found his lifeless body.

Some reports stated Reicha confessed to the murder while being quizzed by the PSP about driving the vehicle.
Simon Carley-Pocock, who the British media claim was an accountant and had moved to Portugal several years ago after being diagnosed with a “serious illness”, which some reports said was HIV, is thought to have been killed sometime between Thursday (31 March) and Saturday (2 April).
In a statement at the time, the PJ said the suspect was arrested “for the presumed crime of aggravated murder and theft.
“The detainee, inside a house located in the Pereiro area of Alcoutim, following an altercation with the owner of the property, a 58-year-old man, armed himself with a weapon and struck the victim with several blows to the abdomen, causing his death.
“He then seized the victim’s vehicle and several objects before being intercepted in Faro for driving without legal authorisation.”
The British Embassy in Lisbon said :“We are in contact with local authorities following the death of a British national in the Algarve and are ready to provide consular assistance.”
According to reports in the national press, cuff links were among the stolen objects found inside the Audi being driven by Reicha, who is understood to have killed his victim with a spear-like object.
One possible scenario put forward by the media at the beginning of the investigation was that Reicha worked as a rent boy and had met with Carley-Pocock for a sexual liaison.