Bruno Fernandes de Souza, 28, former goalkeeper of Brazilian football club Flamengo, has admitted to having planned the murder of his girlfriend, then cut into pieces and fed to his rottweiler.
Bruno Fernandes de Souza, 27, pictured left, a goalkeeper who was tipped to play for Brazil at the 2014 World Cup, is accused of having Eliza Samudio, top right, killed to avoid paying child support after she gave birth to his love child. The former Flamengo player, pictured in action bottom right, had previously denied any knowledge of what happened to the 25-year-old, but told a Brazilian court yesterday how his best friend Luiz Henrique Romao had paid someone to kill her. He admitted that although he hadn’t ordered his former lover to be killed, he had ‘accepted’ it.
De Souza, was one of the possible candidates for goalkeepers to play the World Cup 2014 at home, in Brazil. At least he was, before being accused of killing his former girlfriend Eliza Samudio, whom de Souza killed to avoid paying child support.
Initially, the former goalkeeper of Flamengo has denied guilt, but on Wednesday, March 6th in court, he burst into tears and admitted knowing that his best friend, Luiz Enrique Romao had hired someone to kill his ex-girlfriend.
The goalkeeper is accused of planning Ms Samudio’s abduction and murder with eight others including his wife Dayane, another former lover, a cousin and former policeman Marcos Santos.
It has been alleged that he watched as Santos tortured her and then helped him to chop her body.
Parts of the woman’s corpse are alleged to have been fed to Bruno’s pet rottweillers, while the rest was buried in concrete.
At an earlier trial, Romao was found guilty of Ms Samudio’s murder and jailed for 15 years. Santos will be put on trial next month.
Bruno, who before his arrest had been linked with a multi-million pound transfer to AC Milan, has always claimed Ms Samudio was alive and had left the country. Her body has never been found.
