Wife jailed over killing Greek ambassador in Brazil

A Brazilian woman has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for planning the murder of her husband, the former Greek ambassador to Brazil, reported British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

In 2016, Kyriakos Amiridis' charred remains were found in the boot of a burnt-out 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 confessed to killing the ambassador at the behest of his lover, and he has been jailed for 22 years, said the BBC report.

At the end of their three-day trial, a judge described their crime as "bestial".

Another man, Eduardo Moreira Tedeschi di Melo - a relative of Gomes - was acquitted of murder but has already served one year in prison for helping to hide Amiridis' body, the report added.

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