Chilling 8 words policewoman told her dad's killer when she arrested him 25 years later

After her dad Gilvado was shot dead when she was 9, GIslayne Silva de Deus studied law, became a police office and joined the homicide squad in her lifelong quest to catch him

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 dad was an honest and hard-working man. He encouraged us to study and spent time helping us with homework and times tables. He was always very close to us and caring.

"My sisters and I went through really difficult times after we lost him. What happened could easily have sent us on a different direction, but our mother always taught us to follow the right path.”

She said that through her studies and career path she always had one goal in mind - to see Gomes in jail.

She said: "My first post as a policewoman was in a penitentiary and I whenever I arrived there I always imagined seeing him arriving to serve his sentence. That always motivated me."

She added: "I want this story to serve as an example to other children who, like me, lost their mother or father in a violent way."