The identity of the woman found bound at the wrists in a burnt out car on scrubland on the Loulé – Quarteira borders has been revealed, though little appears to be clear as to why anyone would have wanted her dead.
Say reports, family and friends “cannot find an explanation for the violent murder” of 29-year-old Tatiana Mestre.
Known locally as ‘Tati’, the young mum-of-two lived with her husband in Vale Judeu – the area near where her body was found on Monday evening (click here).
Indeed it was her husband who is understood to have contacted police last Saturday to say his wife had ‘gone missing’.
Initial reports in tabloid Correio da Manhã suggested ‘Tati’ had a “past related to the consumption of drugs”. The Opel car in which her body was discovered was in an area “known for being used for the consumption and trafficking of drugs”, adds the paper today, and this is thus the direction in which detectives are working.
Says CM, the Opel car did not belong to ‘Tati’, but she had been using it.
The dead woman was discovered with “a cloth around her head” on the back seat of the vehicle, suggesting that asphyxiation could have been the cause of death.
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