Brazil’s ex-lawmaker jailed for killing husband with assist of 1 of their 55 youngsters

Brazil’s former congresswoman was sentenced to 50 years in jail for plotting the homicide of her husband with the assistance of her organic youngster.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 14, 2022 19:08 IST

Flordelis ordered the killing “as a result of the sufferer saved strict management of the household funds and administered conflicts rigidly. (Representative Image)

By India Today Web Desk: A Rio de Janeiro courtroom on Sunday sentenced former Brazilian congresswoman, Flordelis dos Santos, who has additionally been a celeb gospel singer, to 50 years in jail for killing her husband.

The courtroom held that Flordelis (61) had made not less than six failed makes an attempt to poison Anderson do Carmo (42) with cyanide earlier than orchestrating his homicide. Anderson was shot in June 2019 outdoors his home in Rio de Janerio.

Prosecutors charged Dos Santos in August 2020 with “orchestrating the homicide, enlisting (several of her grown children) to take part in the crime and attempting to disguise it as an armed robbery,” AFP reported.

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Flordelis and Anderson had been thought of an influence couple in Brazil’s burgeoning Evangelical Christian motion – having an enormous household with 55 youngsters, most of them adopted.

Simone dos Santos Rodrigues, a organic daughter of the previous congresswoman, was additionally sentenced on Sunday to 31 years in jail, whereas different youngsters had been acquitted within the case.

Flordelis ordered the killing “as a result of the sufferer saved strict management of the household funds and administered conflicts rigidly”, and refused to provide preferential remedy to the ex-lawmaker’s closest [friends] in detriment to different family members, the courtroom was quoted as stating by the Guardian.

Five of the couple’s different youngsters and a granddaughter had been additionally accused within the trial.

(With enter from The Guardian and AFP)

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Nov 14, 2022