ODD WORLD
A
star footballer is to go on trial accused of torturing and killing his
mistress, then feeding her dismembered body parts to his pet dogs.
Married
Bruno Fernandes de Souza, 27, a goalkeeper once tipped to play for Brazil, is
alleged to have turned model Eliza Samudio 'into a human sacrifice' to preserve
his reputation after she gave birth to his love child.
He
is already serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence after being convicted
of assaulting and abducting Ms Samudio, 25, but will be tried for her murder
later this year.
Prosecutors
allege that Bruno planned Ms Samudio's kidnap and murder with eight others,
including his wife Dayane, a teenage cousin and former detective Luiz Santos,
all of whom have been charged with murder, conspiracy to murder and kidnapping.
The
goalkeeper, who played for Brazilian club Flamengo, is said to have watched as Santos committed
'barbaric tortures' on Ms Samudio before helping the former detective dismember
her body.
Parts
of the woman's body are alleged to have been fed to Bruno's dogs while the rest
was buried in concrete.
Bruno
is accused of ordering his wife to tell people that his love child, who was
four months old at the time of the killing, had been adopted by them from a
poor relative.
Prosecutors
will allege that Bruno planned Ms Samudio's murder after she told him she would
take legal action to prove he was the father of her child.
In
a statement to police, his cousin claimed that, led by Santos,
they kidnapped Ms Samudio from a hotel in Rio
de Janeiro on June 4, 2010.
He
said they drove her some 220 miles to a property in Belo Horizonte which the footballer and his
wife used occasionally as a weekend retreat, where Ms Samudio was tortured.
It
is claimed that Santos
played loud music on the stereo to drown out the woman's screams.
Bruno,
whose contract with Flamengo has been suspended, also faces charges of
kidnapping, hiding a body and forming a criminal gang with intent to murder.
He
has maintained his innocence throughout, claiming he has a 'clear conscience'.
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