Friday, September 01, 2006

Woman 'sawed in half' over parking dispute

A street parking attendant in Brazil's crime-ridden city of Rio de Janeiro has been charged with sawing a woman in two over a parking space dispute.

The 29-year-old male suspect was arrested on Tuesday and confessed to murdering businesswoman Edna Souza, 51, in a house she was trying to rent in the middle class Botafogo district, a police spokeswoman said.

"Only the bottom part of the corpse has been found. Today police are going in force to the city waste dump, which will be combed to try to find the upper part," the spokeswoman said.

Police received information that the two had quarrelled and questioned the man, who confessed the murder. He killed her with a knife and then used a handsaw to dismember the body, police said. The man said Souza had humiliated him.

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