Faro strangler gets 19 year sentence
Published on 14/03/2018
Faro court has sentenced the man who strangled his girlfriend with a flex and then hid her body for more than 24 hours, to 19 years and four months in prison.
After reading the ruling, the presiding judge turned to 38-year-old Miguel Silva and called his actions, “hideous” and “incomprehensible,” even though the court did not give him the maximum sentence of 25 years.