FAVELA SAINT OR AN ANGEL OF DEATH?
IT SOUNDS like a storyline straight out of a telenovela: a powerful politician and her husband spend a romantic evening strolling down the beachfront. When they arrive home, she goes to look in on their children, leaving him on the phone in the garage.
Moments later he’s shot dead.
She claims her husband is the victim of a botched robbery – but the police aren’t buying it and say she’s the mastermind behind his murder.
But this is far from fiction. Brazilian congresswoman Flordelis dos Santos de Souza (60) stands accused of killing her husband, Anderson do Carmo de Souza, in a case that has transfixed Brazil and gripped the globe.
Anderson (42), who was
