Nurse convicted of killing IT worker in the Algarve captured in Indonesia

Former nurse Mariana Fonseca, sentenced to 23 years in prison for the murder of an IT worker in 2020 in the Algarve, was captured by Interpol in Jakarta, Indonesia, after months on the run. The Judicial Police announced that an international arrest warrant was executed, and she has been placed in a detention centre since Thursday, March 5. The police are currently handling the legal procedures for her extradition to Portugal to serve her sentence. Mariana Fonseca, who was working in the restaurant industry at the time, was convicted on April 27, 2021, for planning the murder of IT worker Diogo Gonçalves with her girlfriend Maria Malveiro, in order to claim a €70,000 insurance payout. Initially, she was acquitted due to lack of evidence of her involvement, but this decision was later overturned by the Évora Court of Appeal, which sentenced her to 23 years in prison. She fled the country before her arrest. On December 30, 2021, Maria Malveiro was found dead in her cell at the women's prison in Tires, Cascais.