Maida Bernice Flores da Silva, 58, Neuza Denize Silva Dos Anjos, 65 and Neuza’s daughter Tatiana Silvia Dos Santos, 43, died within hours of eating the cake late on December 23.
Husband of woman 'poisoned by Christmas cake' noticed something 'bad' when he had slice A man whose wife died after eating a Christmas cake believed to have been laced with arsenic said he “sensed it tasted bad” as he tucked in.
Jefferson Luiz Moraes, Maida’s husband, told local network G1 : “When I ate it I also sensed a bad taste, but because the cake had sugar on top it hid [the bad taste] a little bit.
Police arrested Zeli's daughter-in-law, Deise Moura dos Anjos, 42, on suspicion of poisoning the flour used to make the cake.
She said: “We analysed 89 samples and of those 89 samples we found one sample of flour contained extremely high levels of arsenic.
