The PJ announced that investigative efforts have provided evidence leading to the arrest of the suspect, who was placed in preventive detention following the initial judicial interrogation.
The arrest was carried out under a warrant issued by the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) of Viseu.
The woman is strongly suspected of committing a crime of attempted qualified homicide against her 43-year-old ex-partner.
According to the PJ, the events under investigation are believed to have occurred in July, after the accused allegedly ‘contracted’ an acquaintance with a criminal history of similar offenses, asking him to kill her ex-partner, from whom she separated in April.
The suspect reportedly specified “the terms, location, and day the crime was to occur, which ultimately did not happen because the ‘contracted’ individual alerted the victim,” they added.
