Catarina went to help children in São Tomé. She was killed 12 years later by an employee

Catarina Barros de Sousa was brutally murdered by an employee of the hotel she managed two years ago, in São Tomé, where she traveled more than ten years ago, to volunteer. The crime left the population in shock. The suspect was arrested.

The news of the death of a Portuguese-Sao Tome citizen on Monday night – whose funeral took place on Friday at the Prazeres cemetery, in Lisbon, took by surprise what is one of the most peaceful countries in Africa – according to a report from the Enact project, financed by the European Union, S. Tomé and Príncipe obtained last year 1.88 points in the organized crime index, on a scale of 1 to 10, with the continent average being almost five.

The Portuguese is Catarina Barros de Sousa, 51, who has owned the Mucumbli Hotel for rural and ecological tourism for two years in Roça Ponto Figo, north of the island, where she was found dead with machete blows to the head and neck. The 38-year-old confessed perpetrator of the crime detained on Thursday by the local Judicial Police and placed in preventive detention by the court, he was a gardener at the hotel where they both worked. Although the investigation is still ongoing, JN knows that he may have acted out of revenge after part of his salary was deducted due to unjustified absences from work. For the crime of qualified homicide, repudiated by the São Tomé and Portuguese Executives, he faces a penal framework that reaches 25 years in prison.