A 34-year-old man from Macau has been detained by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on suspicion of violence against his father and causing several injuries, a PJ spokesperson said yesterday during the regular press conference of the police forces.
According to the same spokesperson, the victim is a 72-year-old man who lived with his son (the suspect) and his wife.
The case was initially reported to the Public Security Police Force (PSP) which later transferred it to the PJ for further investigation.
During questioning, the victim told PJ investigators this was, by his count, the eighth time his son had used violence against him, noting that, on five previous occasions, he had called for help from the PSP but after the officers arrived, he had refrained from pressing charges against his son out of pity for him, he said.
On at least one of the previous occasions, the man was seriously injured after the son hit him in the face with a drinking glass causing him to receive treatment at the hospital.
The victim said the suspect had been unemployed since 2019 and that, since then, he had been staying at home all day and behaving very angrily and violently at times.
Last Saturday (October 22), the man said his son had another of these episodes of fury and used the glass to hit out around the kitchen and house. When he got closer to see what was happening, he was hit again, this time on the back of his head. After he recovered from the blow he called once again for help from the police and this time told them the whole story.
The suspect has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office accused of domestic violence.
