On Friday, July 7th, Portimão court handed out a nine-year prison sentence to the man who doused a TUI rep with acid in Alvor last May.
Edmundo Fonseca, 45, was convicted of the attempted murder of 29-year-old Ellie Chessell (pictured left, before the attack) after it was proved that Fonseca was the attacker.
The man who planned the attack, Eliie’s former-boyfriend Cláudio Gouveia, already has been sentenced to 12-years and six months in jail for attempted murder and domestic violence and has to pay his victim €5,000. (HERE)
The pillar of Fonseca’s defence, that he thought the bottle he was handed by Gouveia contained urine, was dismissed. (HERE)
As a result of the attack at the side of a public road near Alvor, Portimão, the British woman suffered burns over 60% of her body.
According to the prosecutor, the attack was devised and planned by the victim's ex-boyfriend, two months after their relationship had ended on the island of Madeira, where they lived.
The two men traveled from Madeira to the Algarve, having planned a meeting with the victim through the Tinder dating site, using a false name and profile.
