It was a lifelong quest for justice for GIslayne de Deus, who as a young girl decided she would do anything to catch the killer of her beloved father Gilvado. He was shot dead in a bar fight about a £50 debt in 1999, leaving his five young daughters to grow up without a dad. Eldest daughter Gislayne vowed to put his fugitive killer, Raimundo Gomes, behind bars, so studied hard, managed to get to law school, became a police officer and then applied to join the homicide unit in her home city of Boa Vista, in Brazil's northern Roraima state.
And last week just months after taking up the post, Gomes was arrested after she tracked him down to his hideaway in farmland on the outskirts of the city. And when Gislayne, now 36, finally got to confront him back at the police station, she made sure he knew why he had been caught. "It's because of me that you are here," she told him.
In a video she posted of the encounter, he appears shocked as she adds: "You are now going to pay." Gomes was finally sent to jail to serve a 12-year sentence which had already been imposed in his absence. The policewoman told Brazilian website G1 that she burst into tears when the man was finally in custody.
"When I saw the man who was responsible for my dad's death was finally in handcuffs, I couldn't hold back the tears. It was an explosion of feelings that turned into tears of relief, as it seemed like this day would never come," she said. She said her father's death devastated the close-knit family: "My.