Robinho: Ex-Man City footballer will serve nine-year prison sentence in Brazil for rape | World News
An Italian courtroom sentenced the Brazillian footballer to 9 years in prison for raping a girl – nonetheless, Brazil doesn’t extradite nationals.
By Kieren Williams, information reporter
Ex-Manchester City footballer Robinho has been instructed by judges he should serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape in Brazil.
In 2017, Robinho was sentenced in Italy to 9 years in prison for his half in a bunch sexual assault in 2013 when he performed for AC Milan.
Brazil doesn’t extradite nationals, which led Italy to hunt his imprisonment in his residence nation.
A Brazilian courtroom has now dominated that he should serve out the prison sentence in Brazil – judges on Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice voted 9-2 to validate Robinho’s conviction.
He may nonetheless enchantment to his nation’s Supreme Court. Jose Eduardo Alckmin, Robinho’s lawyer, instructed the courtroom firstly of Wednesday’s listening to that his consumer needed a retrial in Brazil on grounds of nationwide sovereignty.
Robinho, 40, shot to fame in England following a £32.5m transfer to Man City in 2008, on the day the membership had been purchased out by an funding firm run by Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mansour.
The Brazilian footballer would later transfer on to AC Milan.
The first choose to vote on the Brazillian courtroom, Francisco Falcao, mentioned Robinho ought to serve his sentence in Brazil.
He added that the previous participant can’t go unpunished and that diplomatic friction between Brazil and Italy may emerge if the sentence shouldn’t be served.
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Judge Falcao mentioned: “There’s no obstacle to validate the execution of his sentence. It was confirmed by a court in Milan, which is the competent authority in this case. The conviction is final. The defendant was not put on trial in absence in Italy, he had representation.”
Robinho, who lives in Santos, exterior Sao Paulo, surrendered his passport to Brazilian authorities in March final yr.
He continues to disclaim any wrongdoing and insists his sexual relations with the lady at a Milan bar had been consensual.
