Virginia man gets life in prison for double murder scheme in affair with Brazilian au pair

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A Virginia antheral who was having an matter with the family’s Brazilian au brace was sentenced Friday to beingness successful situation without parole for the execution of his woman and a antheral who was lured to the couple's location arsenic a autumn guy.

Brendan Banfield, a erstwhile IRS instrumentality enforcement officer, claimed that helium changeable Joseph Ryan aft helium came crossed Ryan attacking his woman connected the greeting of Feb. 24, 2023. But prosecutors said Brendan Banfield and au brace Juliana Peres Magalhães acceptable Ryan up successful a strategy to get escaped of Christine Banfield, a pediatric intensive attraction nurse.

In summation to murder, jurors successful February convicted Brendan Banfield of kid endangerment due to the fact that the couple’s 4-year-old girl was location during the killings.

During Banfield's trial, Magalhães testified that helium had told her helium wanted to wed her and person children with her, but helium needed to “get escaped of” his woman first. He didn’t privation a divorcement due to the fact that “she would person much wealth than helium would” and due to the fact that helium wanted custody of the couple’s daughter, said Magalhães, who was 21 erstwhile she started moving for the Banfields successful 2021.

Magalhães told jurors that she and Brendan Banfield had impersonated Christine Banfield connected a website for intersexual fetishes. They utilized the tract to lure Ryan to the location successful Herndon, Virginia, for a intersexual brushwood involving a weapon and staged the country to look arsenic if they had changeable a convulsive intruder.

Magalhães testified that connected the time of the killings, she waited successful a car extracurricular the location with the Banfields' child. When Ryan arrived, she called Brendan Banfield, who was waiting astatine a adjacent McDonald's. The brace took the kid to the basement and past went to the bedroom, wherever they encountered Ryan. Brendan Banfield changeable Ryan and past stabbed Christine Banfield with the weapon Ryan had brought. When Magalhães saw Ryan moving, she fired a 2nd changeable that killed him.

Some media person dubbed the lawsuit the “au brace affair.” Magalhães pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter aft agreeing to attest against Brendan Banfield. Magalhães was sentenced to 10 years successful situation aft Banfield's trial.

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