13:00 29/08/2021
A Brazilian woman has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for planning the murder of her husband, the former Greek ambassador to Brazil. In 2016, the charred remains of Kyriakos Amiridis were found in the trunk of a burned car in Rio de Janeiro.
His wife Françoise de Souza Oliveira had been having an affair with a military police officer, Sergio Gomes.
Gomes later admitted to killing the ambassador on the orders of her girlfriend, and he has now been jailed for 22 years.
At the end of their three-day trial, a judge described their crime as "animal".
Another man, Eduardo Moreira Tedeschi di Melo, a relative of Gomes, was found not guilty of murder but has already served a year in prison for helping to hide Mr Amiridis' body.
Amiridis, 59, served as consul in Rio de Janeiro from 2001-2004, and returned to Brazil as ambassador the year he was killed. He married Françoise in 2004 and the couple have a daughter.
Before his death, Amiridis had traveled from the capital, Brasilia, to the city of Nova Iguacu, north of Rio, to spend the Christmas holidays with his wife and her parents.
Ms Amiridis initially reported him missing, telling police he had left their apartment without explanation and driven off in a rental car.
The burned car was found the next day with the ambassador's body inside. Investigators found bloodstains on a couch in the apartment where the couple had been staying, and it is believed he was killed there before his body was put in the rental car. /tvklan.al
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