Brazilian Juries Deliver Lengthy Sentences in Feminicide, Insurance Killing and 2022 Ambush

Overview

• In Paraíba, ex-husband Manoel Ângelo was sentenced to 30 years in a closed regime after jurors convicted him of qualified homicide with the qualifiers of feminicide and base motive.
• Investigators said councilwoman Elinete (Tina) da Silva was shot three times during a football tournament awards ceremony in April 2022 after weeks of stalking reported by family members.
• In Mato Grosso, Jean Paolo de Lima Pirolla received 18 years and Uemerson Gonçalves de Souza 19 years for the 2016 murder of Paulo Sander Alves, with the jury finding the use of a method that hindered the victim’s defense; both begin serving time in a closed regime without the right to appeal in freedom.
• Prosecutors say tow-truck owners Fábio Sérgio Vitor and Valéria Gonçalves Teixeira planned the killing to collect nearly R$2 million in life insurance, with Valéria named for 90% of the payout, and their cases were split and await judgment.
• Also in Mato Grosso, Alandro Souza Carvalho dos Santos was sentenced to 16 years and 5 months in a closed regime for the qualified homicide of 20-year-old Luan Campos de Oliveira in Sorriso, an ambush shooting documented by forensics that the defendant initially confessed to before later recanting.