A man was sentenced to 19 years in prison for killing his ex-partner with a knife in Porto, in November 2025, the Regional Prosecutor General’s Office in Porto said. The killing happened on 6 November 2025 at Praça da Corujeira. After arranging a meeting by phone under the pretext of discussing their daughter, the accused stabbed the victim eight times, including six strikes to the chest, one to the right shoulder blade area and one to the left upper limb, according to the prosecutor’s office. After the attack, the man drank liquid from a bottle he carried marked “lixívia”, and then jumped from a viaduct near Rotunda das Areias in an apparent attempt at suicide. He was taken to Hospital de São João for surgery on his lower limbs following the fall, before being transferred to São João de Deus Prison Hospital on 4 December 2025. The first-instance court found the prosecution’s account proven and convicted the accused for aggravated qualified homicide. It also imposed an accessory penalty of expulsion from the country and barred him from entering national territory for 10 years. The court ordered compensation of 60,000 euros to the victim’s heirs. The prosecution has appealed, arguing for a single sentence of 25 years in prison for the homicide case. The accused also faced a charge related to prohibited weapon possession, but he was acquitted of that count at first instance. The court’s decision was delivered on 12 October and has not yet become final. The man remains in pre-trial detention as the appeal proceeds.