A Portuguese citizen wanted for the practice of a crime of qualified murder in Lisbon was detained by the Judiciary Police (PJ) of Cabo Verde to be extradited to Portugal, it was announced today.

In a statement, the PJ de Portugal explains that as the Judicial Authorities and Judicial Police of Cabo Verde, in conjunction with the Portuguese Judicial Authorities and the Portuguese Judicial Police, through the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Board, they located and detained a 41-year-old woman, through application for an international arrest warrant.

The Portuguese citizen was convicted of the crime of qualified homicide, which took place on December 24, 2016, in Lisbon, with her partner, also Portuguese, aged 25 years.

In the course of the investigation and knowledge of the crime, the defendant was detained and was subject to the coercive measure of preventive detention, following which she was sentenced in the first instance to a prison sentence of 17 years, the PJ said.

According to the newspaper O Minho, the woman “will still have to compensate the victim’s family, Hugo Oliveira, in 60 thousand euros. Fernanda Baltazar will have murder or a partner using medicines, dry ice and fire”.

He reportedly sedated the groom with pills and poured 35 kg of dry ice into the bedroom before setting the bed on fire.

According to the woman, the death was part of a suicide pact that ended up failing, already. The woman claims to have helped her fiancé, Hugo José Oliveira, to die in a fire. The suspect confessed to the judge that she did not have the courage to design, but

After the crime, a teacher fled by taxi to his hometown, Vila Nova de Gaia, where he was found and detained by the Judiciary Police. The murderer sedated the groom with pills and poured 35 pounds of dry ice in before setting the bed on fire.

“For legal reasons, they serve without the conviction handed down in the first instance having become final, the defendant ended up being judged in freedom, starting for an uncertain party”read in the communiqué.

As he was judged on April 8th on April 8th, the date of first instance was reconfirmed, from the date of the woman’s judicial transit to a prison sentence of 17 years in prison, explained that police.

After services communicated by the Portuguese PJ and PJ from Cabo Verde, it was possible to locate the “defendant in that country and her detention” compliance with the arrest warrant issued by the judicial authorities and carried out by the judges of the Judiciary Police of Cabo Verde.

According to the PJ, currently awaiting the legal procedures related to the extradition of the accused now in custody, from Cape Verde to Portugal, to fulfill the remainder of the prison sentence to which she was sentenced.