ninemsn staff

2:35pm April 4, 2014

Myriam Castro of Brazil has been jailed for six years.

A doctor has been jailed for six years after she ordered a gang to chop off her fiance’s penis when he ended their relationship three days before their wedding.

Myriam Priscilla Castro, 34, was accused of ordering the gruesome attack after being outraged at her former partner Wendel Souza. Allegedly, with the help of her dad, the respected doctor from a wealthy family in Juiz de Fora in Brazil is said to have hired three men who snatched Mr Souza the week after the planned wedding and used a knife to slice off his penis, The Mirror reports.

His house was also burned down and his car wrecked.

Mr Souza’s brother, who was with him at the time of the attack, was said to have fainted after witnessing the scene in 2002.

Castro was said to have gone on the run from authorities, working in a small town as a family doctor and even marrying in 2012 before she was arrested outside her home this week.

She has been taken to Estevao Pinto women’s prison in Belo Horizonte to serve her six-year sentence, although her lawyer said in a statement that Castro maintains her innocence and will appeal.