Title: No joy for Joella By: Reena Martins Source: The Telegraph (Calcutta), 13 June 2010 [Magazine section, page 15] at Full text 1088 words + 3 photos at http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100613/jsp/7days/story_12560132.jsp
Excerpts: They called her Joella - the girl who loved fast cars and fast men . her death has all the ingredients of a potboiler: a young woman, a missing minister, loads of money, broken marriages, sexual abuse - and a host of unanswered questions. Torrado was widely known as "Mickky's girl" . It has been found that she had also taken the antidepressant, alprazolam, in addition to rat poison . Sara, Mickky's his wife of 11 years, accuses him of beating and humiliating her for five years and claims that he had an affair with the couple's 18-year-old maid and with a Russian prostitute in Dubai when he was a minister. Sara says he beat her, which led to three miscarriages and an abortion. people who knew Torrado don't remember her as a woman who'd take a beating.. Pacheco, who grew up in a poor family, dropped out of school and became a ladies' tailor. He worked in Bahrain as a tailor. Nadia was also left scarred by her alcoholic father - who died some years ago. During his drunken bouts, he beat up her mother, Sonia, a teacher at Margao's Loyola High School. Full text 1088 words + 3 photos at http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100613/jsp/7days/story_12560132.jsp
