A killer who raped and shot his girlfriend and then went on the run has now been extradited back to his home country after his victim’s dad tracked him down and won a legal battle to see him sent back 30 years after the brutal killing.
Although extradition is usually handled between states, when the Colombian request was rejected, the dead woman’s father picked up the legal challenge and made it happen.
Fugitive Jaime Saade was convicted of the savage murder of his then-girlfriend Nancy Mestre in 1994.
He was sentenced to 27 years in prison but escaped and fled to Brazil where he began a new life under a different name.
Saade was finally found by Nancy’s dedicated dad, Martin Mestre, who discovered him hiding in Belo Horizonte in 2020 when he was arrested but then released as they were apparently unsure of his identity.
The killer, by then calling himself Henrique dos Santos, was finally identified when police followed him to an ice cream parlour and took a glass he had been using for fingerprints.
He was only rearrested in May 2023 after the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court accepted an extradition plea resubmitted by Nancy’s dad.
Saade was held at Inspector Jose Martinho Drumond Prison until he was put on a flight to Colombia from Belo Horizonte International Airport on 11th April.
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New pictures show him stooped and grey-haired as he is led to the plane in handcuffs by Brazilian police.
Saade’s lawyer Fernando Gomes de Oliveira claimed his extradition was “a clear violation of the Federal Constitution and the human rights of the extradited person.”
It is understood that Brazilian justice officials had missed the legal deadline to seek his extradition.
Saade is expected to be ordered to serve his full sentence in a Colombian jail.
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