CARACAS – Champion Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero hanged himself early yesterday from the bars of a prison cell where he had been detained for killing his wife, police said.
Valero, who had held the WBC lightweight title until recently going for alcohol rehabilitation, was found in his cell. The 28-year-old boxer nicknamed “The Inca”, was charged with stabbing his wife to death in a room at the InterContinental Hotel in the city of Valencia.
Police said on Sunday he had confessed to the murder of Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero (24). – (Reuters)