Aliny Godinho: Horror final moments of mum murdered in front of daughter on school run

The last words a mum heard after she was to death on the run in front of her young daughter have been revealed in a new TV .

Ricardo Godinho repeatedly stabbed ex-wife Aliny Godinho, 39, in broad daylight, and in front of other terrified mothers, as she walked with her little girl to collect her two sons from in Epsom, Surrey.

The frenzied knife attack on February 8, 2019, happened in just 17 seconds as Ms Godinho held her three-year-old daughter’s hand. The couple, who had moved together from Brazil to live in the UK, had separated in December 2018. Godinho, 41, who had followed them in his car, was later arrested and confessed to the crime, but he would only admit to manslaughter during his trial.

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A new episode of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan has pieced together Ms Godinho’s last hours, during which unbeknown to her she was being tracked by her ex-husband using her phone’s Find My function.

CCTV images captured Aliny catching the bus at 2.38pm from where she was staying in Streatham to Epsom, along with her daughter. She got off the bus at 2:55 pm to collect her other children from school.

Godinho was waiting for them in his pick-up truck when they got off. He mounted the grass verge alongside where they were walking, jumped out tof he vehicle and started stabbing her repeatedly, before dropping the murder weapon and driving off.

A friend of Aliny revealed that the mother was already convinced that Godinho wanted to kill her, but believed that he would never attempt to attack her if she was with their daughter.

Lucienne Monteiro told the programme: “She believed that she was safe because of the children. So, from that week, she took her little child, the girl, with her to school every day, because she felt protected. The little one was his favourite one. So, she thought like he won’t hurt her.”

But she was wrong. Ms Monteiro said: “She didn't have the time to defend herself. She didn't have any marks on the arm or anything; it was really fast. They said that he stabbed her and then, as she was falling down, he kept stabbing her, without saying anything. And then when he'd done that, he just look at his little one and then he walk away.”

A court later heard how the distraught girl told a witness immediately after seeing her father kill her mother: "Mummy’s not coming back".

Revealing the last words Ms Godinho heard, Ms Monteiro told how a bystander who had witnessed the horrific murder went up to her as she lay dying and reassured her that Godinho had not injured her daughter.

She said: "As a mother, I guess you can imagine in your mind, to be going that way and scared that something was happening with her little one,” she says. "So this lady came and said to her, ‘your baby’s OK’. So I hope she went in peace."

Godinho was found guilty of murder and possessing an offensive weapon by Guildford Crown Court and sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years in July 2019. However, when he was transferred to a prison in Brazil in 2022, it meant his sentence was changed to 30 years in jail.

The new episode of Killer Britain is on Prime video from 9pm tonight