Keeper who had pregnant lover killed and fed to dogs is ordered to pay son £100k

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    • A Brazilian goalkeeper who had his lover murdered when she fell pregnant with his baby has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 compensation to their son.

    Bruno Fernandes, 38 – once a star at top-flight club Corinthians – was convicted of ordering the slaying of victim Eliza Samudio when she refused an abortion. Her body was hacked into pieces by the killers and fed to a pack of Rottweilers, according to reports.

    Now – after he spent just six years in jail for the gruesome killing – a court has ordered him to pay his son Bruninho £103,500. The fallen star's legal team's request to lower the amount was dismissed by the Justice of Mato Grosso do Sul on April 24.

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    Fernandes – still on parole after the 2013 conviction – claimed he cannot afford the hefty sum. He told the court that despite once being tipped his national team's goalie, he now plays a third-division team earning just £199 a month.

    But the court decided the uphold the original decision – made last October, 12 years after Eliza's death. Bruninho was just four months old when his mother was killed and watched as her murderers tortured, beat and strangled her.

    Judges said he deserves compensation for his traumatic upbringing. Eliza disappeared after suing Fernandes for child support.

    Her body was never found and her baby was discovered with her lover's associates in a slum in the city of Ribeirao das Neves. Fernandes later admitted to organising the plot, but the allegation of using dogs to rip the woman's body apart was never confirmed by police.

    He was originally sentenced to 22 years behind bars but after just six years his sentence was converted to a semi-open one in 2019. In a semi-open prison regime, prisoners are allowed to work outside the prison during the day, but they must return each night.

    But justice officials allowed him to sleep at home, where he was ordered to stay between 8pm to 6am every night. Then in January this year, the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice granted Fernandes parole.

    The only condition of his release is that he presents himself at the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro every three months. Their son, now 13 years old, made headlines earlier this year as he debuted in the same position as his father in the Athletico-PR youth team.

    Judge Marcos Jose de Brito Rodrigues said the boy is due compensation for losing his mother at the orders of his father. The judge also stressed that the sum was reasonable and fixed.

    Previously, the court denied another appeal made by Bruninho's family to be granted £956,000. Bruno continuously refused to recognise the boy as his biological son but was declared his legal father following a court decision in 2012.

    He demanded a DNA test to prove whether Bruninho is his. But the court went ahead and decreed Bruno's "presumed paternity" after the athlete refused to provide genetic material after Eliza's death, fearing it might be used to incriminate him.

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