Upset ex-boyfriend who threw acid on former Miss Italy beauty queen Gessica Notaro gets sentence reduced on appeal
A man who doused his former girlfriend, a Miss Italy beauty queen, with acid has had his jail term reduced post appeal. The 29-year-old beauty queen, Gessica Notaro, had worked as a TV presenter and a dolphin trainer in the past. Sadly, she had a corrosive liquid thrown at her by her ex-partner, Jorge Edson Tavares, a 30-year-old bodyguard she had met at a dolphin aquarium that the two of them had worked in at the same time. After their relationship ended, he stalked and threatened her a few times for several months until he poured a bottle of acid all over her face after jumping her from behind a parked car.
Tavares, who is from Cape Verde, had been initially given a combined sentence of 18 years after he was convicted of the attack back in January last year.