The driver involved in the accident that caused the death of the singer Claudisabel was sentenced to three years in prison in December 2022, and the sentence was suspended, as it was considered that ther was no risk of it happening again and according what the Public Prosecutor did. The Office (MP) asked.
A judge in Grândola Court considered that the accused, identified as a 5-year-old prison guard,0 years, he acted with gross negligence and chose to drive when he had an alcohol level of 1.95 g/l, which in itself is considered a crime and punishable by a prison sentence of up to one year, in addition to a fine. The fact that the singer was still without a seat belt would have been a mitigating factor, which meant that the death could have been avoided if she had been using that device.
In the sentence reading session,which was held this Monday evening,the defendant,Marco Silva,was convicted in legal terms of the crime of negligent homicide and the crime of driving while intoxicated,explains Lusa.
In addition to the three-year suspended sentence, the man was banned from driving for a year.However, the defendant did not pay R$150,000, the amount charged to the insurance company, as decided by the court.
In may this year, the Setúbal Public Prosecutor’s Office charged the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident that killed the singer Claudisabel for the crimes of negligent homicide and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Frist, the investigation would determine that there was evidence that it was the accused’s careless driving and failure to observe the safety distance, which resulted in the artist’s death, leading to a charge of culpable homicide.
Though, during the trial, which was held at Grândola Court, the accused, who identified himself as a prison officer, stated that he had only drunk two beers. Her defence also claimed that the cause of the accident was that the car Claudisabel was riding in was immobilized on the highway, which has not been proven, and that the singer’s death could have been avoided if she had been wearing a seat belt — which would have on the MP choosing to request a suspended sentence.
The accident between two light vehicles took place on highway 2 (A2), near Alcácer do sal, in the early hours of December 19, 2022, when the car in which the singer was traveling overturned, which forced her give up The doctor from the Emergency and resuscitation Medical Vehicle (VMER) at Hospital do Litoral Alentejano, in Santiago do Cacém announced the death of the artist, who would have died immediately, at the scene.
Claudisabel was the artistic name of Claudia Isabel Leiria Madeira (b. 1976, Faro), known as a singer of popular Portuguese music, a career she started at just 13 years old, when her first album was released, You said, I thought. One of his biggest hits dates back to 1999, when he was released I need a heroafter participating in the RTP da Canção Festival 2010.