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Teenage girl dies after eating poisoned cupcake delivered to her home with 'love note'
A girl in Brazil died after eating a a poisoned cupcake that was sent to her with a love note.
Ana Neves, 17, ate the cupcakes in the city of Itapeceria, over 300 miles north of São Paolo, which were delivered with a note saying 'a treat for the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.'
The cupcakes, however, were laced with arsenic, with Ana initially falling ill around an hour after eating them. Despite being discharged from hospital after falling ill, her condition worsened, and she died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday afternoon (June 1). A girl in Brazil died after eating a a poisoned cupcake that was sent to her with a love note. Pic: Facebook
São Paolo Civil Police arrested an unnamed 17-year-old girl who confessed to sending the cupcakes to Ana, saying that she just wanted to 'scare' her. She said that she bought the poison on the internet for 65 Brazilian Reals (approx €10), and sent a courier to deliver the cupcakes.
The suspect also said that she bought the cupcakes from Menina Trufa, a local pastry shop, but the owner of the shop said that no couriers who work for her shop made the delivery.
'The product left the store and no one knows where it went,' Josielie Franca, who owns the pastry shop, said in a statement on Instagram. 'It was a delivery boy from an app. All of our deliveries arrive via our delivery boys, who use our pink bag, with our logo.' The teenager ate a cupcake addressed to her as 'the most beautiful girl I've ever seen,' but died just one day later after being poisoned. Pic:'This delivery was not made by our delivery boys.'
Ana's school, João Baptista de Oliveira state school, paid tribute to her on social media, writing 'With a huge weight, our classroom says goodbye to a beautiful star.
'No words will be enough to console, but we hope that love and beautiful memories will comfort, little by little, the hurting hearts. Ana was, and will always be, part of our history. We will carry with us the good times, the lessons learned and the affection that she left behind.'
