A Brazilian woman will appear against her father, prosecuted for the triple murder of her ex-boyfriend and his parents.
Paulo Matias is accused of killing actor Rafael Miguel, his father João Alsisio and his mother Miriam Miguel, in 2019 at Cupertino’s house in Pedreira, a city in the southeastern state of São Paulo.
Paulo Matías did not approve of Rafael Miguel’s relationship with his daughter, Isabella Matías. Miguel was 22 years old at the time of the murder and Matías was 18.
Isabella Matías’ request to testify at her father’s trial on October 10 was initially rejected by the São Paulo Court of Justice on Monday, Brazilian outlet Metrópoles reported.
Isabella Matías (left) will take the stand against her father, who is being tried for the triple homicide of her ex-boyfriend and actor Rafael Miguel (right) and his parents in June 2019.
Paulo Matías (pictured) asked a São Paulo judge in June to release him from prison, where he remains before the October 10 trial for the murders of his daughter’s ex-boyfriend, actor Rafael Miguel, and her parents. .
The court reversed its decision on Thursday after accepting a request from the prosecution, which asked that Paulo Matías be removed from the courtroom while his daughter and mother, Vanesa Tibcherani, were questioned by lawyers for both sides.
São Paulo prosecutor Soraia Munhoz said the request to ban her from the courtroom was based on “well-founded fear and obvious embarrassment” that her daughter and mother were in the judge’s room.
Rafael Miguel and his parents visited the Cupertino house on June 9, 2019 to talk to him about his relationship with Isabella Matías.
Surveillance video footage showed Paulo Matías shooting Rafael Miguel and his parents 13 times in front of the house as his daughter looked on in horror.
A São Paulo court accepted the prosecution’s request to exclude Paulo Matías from the courtroom on October 10 when his daughter Isabella Matías (right) testifies against him in the murder trial of her ex-boyfriend Rafael Miguel (left) and their parents.
Paulo Matías (pictured) fled to the central-western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul after he allegedly shot dead Rafael Miguel, his daughter’s then-boyfriend, and her parents in June 2019. before heading to Paraguay. He was arrested in the Brazilian state of São Paulo in May 2022.
Paulo Matías fled to the central-western state of Mato Grosso do Sul before arriving in Paraguay.
He returned to São Paulo, where he was arrested hiding in a hotel on May 16, 2022.
Rafael Miguel was best known for his role in the soap opera Chiquititas (Little Ones), which aired on SBT television. He also appeared in three Globo television soap operas.
In June, Paulo Matias wrote a letter to the Court of Justice of São Paulo and asked the judge to consider the possibility of releasing him from prison.
He stated that the murder charges were based on ‘a narrative and facts that do not correspond to the truth,’ in the letter obtained by Metropoles.