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Dharmabum

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Disgusting and outrageous - and what not - this judicial system and a pervert club board that agrees such a man to play for the club just to improve it.
Couldn't make this one up.



Goalkeeper who had his girlfriend kidnapped, murdered and fed to his dogs applies to be allowed out of prison 12 months into a 22-year sentence so he can continue to play professional football
  • Bruno Fernandes de Souza, 28, jailed for the murder of Eliza Samudio, 25
  • He was sentenced to 22 years and three months in prison last March
  • He could be allowed to leave jail on day release to train and play for club
  • Despite his confession he was allowed to sign contract with Montes Claros
  • Pair met at a footballers' party in May 2009 and Samudio later fell pregnant
  • Prosecutors claim he killed the model to avoid paying child support
  • Bruno's wife, cousin and a former policeman also on trial over her death
By Lizzie Parry

PUBLISHED: 19:00 GMT, 12 March 2014 | UPDATED: 02:02 GMT, 13 March 2014

A star Brazilian goalkeeper jailed for 22 years for ordering the kidnap and murder of his girlfriend, who was dismembered and fed to his pet dogs, could be released to play football.

Bruno Fernandes de Souza, 28, confessed to the horrific crimes last March after his ex-girlfriend Eliza Samudio was murdered.

But despite his confession and prison sentence, the goalkeeper was allowed to sign a five-year contract with Montes Claros of the Campeonato Mineiro, upi.com reported.

It means Bruno could be allowed to leave prison on day release, accompanied by a police escort, to train with the team and play in matches. But before the contract can be approved and the day release considered a judge will have to grant his approval.

The former Flamengo captain is said to have wanted his ex-partner dead so he could avoid paying child support after she gave birth to his love child.

Her dead body was allegedly fed to Bruno's pet rottweilers.

Bruno, who was tipped to play for Brazil at the 2014 World Cup, was sentenced to 22 years and three months for the murder.

He has been behind bars since 2010 and is said to be preparing a case to take advantage of a provision in Brazilian law that allows a prisoner more freedom after three or four years, so long as they have shown good behaviour.

Montes Claros club president, Ville Mocellin, confirmed the controversial decision to allow Bruno to sign a contract while he is behind bars.

'We want to give an opportunity to the man Bruno,' he told OTempo.

'For him, it is a chance to return to play. To the club, he is an athlete who can strengthen the team and a way to invest in the social side.'


Judge Marixa Fabiane Rodrigues said the goalkeeper, who played for Brazil's biggest team Flamengo, had 'meticulously calculated' Ms Samudio's execution.

He told the court in Contagem, south-east Brazil, that the footballer was 'twisted' and had 'instilled in his personality a total misunderstanding of values.'

He added: 'Bruno believed that, by making the body disappear, he could ensure total impunity.'

The former player had previously denied any knowledge of what happened to the 25-year-old, but told a court last March 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.

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.

Fernandes, 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.

But he told the court in Contagem that his cousin, Jorge Rosa, who had witnessed the murder, had told him what had happened.

He claimed that after kidnapping Ms Samudio, Romao had taken her to a house in Belo Horizonte where hired killer Santos was waiting.


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Broke down: Souza, 28, is seen in the Forum of Contagem, metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, southeastern Brazil, this week

He said: 'There he held her hands and asked [Romao] to tie them in front of her, and put a tie around her neck.

'And [Romao] even kicked Eliza's legs away. That's what Jorge told me. And that they had chopped up her body, that they had thrown her body for the dogs to eat.'

The former star admitted that he feels 'guilty' for her death despite instisting that he never oredered the killing.

Ms Samudio, who had previously claimed to have had an affair with Real Madrid ace Cristiano Ronaldo, met Bruno at a footballers' party in May 2009 and fell pregnant by accident, it is claimed.

The goalkeeper demanded she have an abortion but she went ahead with the pregnancy, instead insisting that he assume paternity of the child.

Before her disappearance on June 4, 2010, Ms Samudio had approached police claiming she had been held captive by Bruno and his associates, who forced her to take an illegal abortion drug.

Bruno allegedly put a gun to her head and told her: 'You don't know who I am or what I'm capable of - I'm from the favela.'

The baby, Bruninho, was born in February 2010, but the player refused to acknowledge he was the father.

Prosecutors allege that Bruno ordered Ms Samudio's murder after she told him she would take legal action to force him to pay child support.


In a statement to police, the footballer's teenage cousin Jorge Rosa claimed he and Romao picked up Ms Samudio and her son from a Rio de Janeiro hotel after she accepted an invitation by the footballer to talk about the paternity claims.

He said they drove her 220 miles to a property in Belo Horizonte which Bruno and his wife used as a weekend retreat, where she was held captive for six days.

Ms Samudio was then allegedly handed over to former military policeman Santos, who committed 'barbaric tortures' on her before strangling her to death with a neck tie in front of her four-month-old son.

Santos, who was allegedly paid £8,000 to murder her, played loud music on a stereo to drown out the woman's screams, it is claimed.

Edson Moreira, a detective who investigated the case, said: 'His acts were almost impossible to describe without breaking down - images from the worst nightmare you could imagine.'

Police later found Ms Samudio's four-month-old baby in a Belo Horizonte slum, alleged to have been abandoned there by Bruno's wife Dayane. DNA tests later proved the footballer's paternity. The child is now being looked after by Ms Samudio's mother.



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hugrr

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That is incredible, she was tortured and murdered in front of her 4 month old child, over child support payments (which is ultimately his fault too), and he gets let out to play football?

Wtf Brazil??
 

dagraham

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As a lover of true crime books I'm not averse to reading about gruesome stuff but that was actually hard to read. Shocking.

I often find myself let down by some of the frankly pathetically inadequate sentencing in this country but when you read about what goes on in other countries you realise its tame in comparison.

Never mind bring released to play football, the whole lot of them should be fucking hanged.
 

Colonel_Klinck

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lol that is incredible! The fact a club is even prepared to sign him up says a lot. Can you imagine the backlash if that was tried here. Amazing.
 

thinktank

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Well, as long as ALL of his wages are directed towards the child and its mother's family and Bruno is called brunetta by his cellmate and gets brutally fisted ever night in prison, then I don't see a problem.
 

SelbYido

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lol that is incredible! The fact a club is even prepared to sign him up says a lot. Can you imagine the backlash if that was tried here. Amazing.

You'd think, but jailed footballers often find clubs immediately on their release - just the other night I was watching the Football League show and it showed Courtney Meppen-Walter's 1st league goal - the reason it took him so long to hit the target was because he'd been in prison for a couple of years for killing most of a family in a car crash caused by his speeding. Likewise, Luke McCormick got a deal with Swindon immediately after his release for a similar offence and Lee Hughes also played professionally for Notts Co. and others for many years after serving time for causing someone's death in a drunken car crash.
 

RButch

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I usually detest the termination of life for prisoners, but when you hear stories like this one does wonder why they shouldn't make the ultimate sacrifice... Killing somebody in order to stop paying child support... Disgusting human being.

What is the club thinking too?!? Crazy to support this barbaric excuse of a man.

Hope the family of Eliza cause havoc for him and take revenge in one way or another.
 

nailsy

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I remember reading about this last year. Absolutely disgusting that he could be allowed out. I wonder what the clubs fans think of all this?
 

Colonel_Klinck

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You'd think, but jailed footballers often find clubs immediately on their release - just the other night I was watching the Football League show and it showed Courtney Meppen-Walter's 1st league goal - the reason it took him so long to hit the target was because he'd been in prison for a couple of years for killing most of a family in a car crash caused by his speeding. Likewise, Luke McCormick got a deal with Swindon immediately after his release for a similar offence and Lee Hughes also played professionally for Notts Co. and others for many years after serving time for causing someone's death in a drunken car crash.

That I can kind of understand though. They have served their time (even if was perhaps not enough) and should be allowed to rejoin society and contribute to it and pay tax again. This isn't the same at all though. Still only a few years into a massive stretch and for a horrific crime.

I used to go out with a Brazilian girl. My experience although limited of how women are seen in Brazil by a lot if men isn't great. Objects that should should look great, titilate but be submissive. The club obviously feel the fans won't be that upset by the appointment which happily I could never see happening here.
 

Gbspurs

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You'd think, but jailed footballers often find clubs immediately on their release - just the other night I was watching the Football League show and it showed Courtney Meppen-Walter's 1st league goal - the reason it took him so long to hit the target was because he'd been in prison for a couple of years for killing most of a family in a car crash caused by his speeding. Likewise, Luke McCormick got a deal with Swindon immediately after his release for a similar offence and Lee Hughes also played professionally for Notts Co. and others for many years after serving time for causing someone's death in a drunken car crash.

Yep, because car crashes and brutal torture/murder are the same.
 
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