Woman arrested over Christmas cake poisoning deaths 'had laced flour'

Brazilian police have revealed that the woman arrested in an alleged cake poisoning had rowed with her family for years before three of them were killed by the arsenic-laced dessert.

Deise Moura, the daughter-in-law of one of the women who was poisoned but survived, was arrested yesterday at her home in Rio Grande do Sul on suspicion of triple murder and attempted murder.

Her mother-in-law Zeli Dos Anjos made the traditional festive treat which killed three members of her family at a Christmas party in the southern city of Torres on December 23.

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