The Sao Paulo star sent messages to his friends on WhatsApp before he was found dead in a bush last month
THESE pictures show a footballer in bed with the wife of a businessman accused of killing him when he caught them together.
Sao Paulo star Daniel Correa Freitas was found dead in a bush on October 27 in the city of Sao Jose dos Pinhais in Brazil’s southern state of Parana with his throat slit and his genitals cut off.
Businessman Edson Brittes Junior, 38, was arrested three days later and confessed to killing the 24-year-old footballer in a ‘moment of madness’ after he caught him trying to rape his wife Cristiana.
Daniel, who was on loan to Sao Bento, had been invited to the 18th birthday party of the couple’s daughter Allana which began in a nightclub and continued the following morning at the family home.
Today pictures of the footballer grinning while he lay in bed with Allana’s mother - fast asleep in the same dress she wore to the party - emerged in Brazil as Edson’s wife and daughter were also held ahead of a police quiz with the family.
The photos were recovered from WhatsApp messages Daniel sent friends just before he was killed.
He bragged in one message showing him cosying up to pretty Cristiana as she lay with her head on her pillow, saying: “I can sleep here. There are several women sleeping all over the house.”
In another he added: “I’m going to eat the birthday girl’s mum…and the dad is here.”
An unnamed friend, in an ominous warning, responded: “Is he asleep? Nothing you can do then, they’re going to kick you out of the house”
Another added: “They’re going to make mincemeat of you, that guy is going to come and beat you up.”
Police say they believe Daniel was beaten to death in the family home before his body was taken away in the boot of a car and dumped in the bush.
His genitals were dismembered after his death.
Officers have said they are not sure whether the footballer had sex with the murder suspect’s wife.
Edson Brittes Junior’s police confession came after he told a TV programme he had dragged the footballer off his wife and beaten him.
Recalling how he had smashed his bedroom door down after finding it locked and hearing his wife’s screams from inside, he said: “That’s when I dragged him off my wife, threw him to the floor and stopped that monster raping my wife.
“I hit him a lot, a lot and took him out of the house. I don’t know if he was awake or unconscious or if he had just closed his eyes.
“I wasn’t thinking of anything. I had a knife in the car, a small knife, which was with the tools in the boot.
"I did not know I was going to do that, I was desperate, beside myself with rage. I looked in the boot and saw what was there.”
Police arrested the businessman’s wife and daughter after concluding they had tried to persuade witnesses to cover up the murder.
Three other suspects thought to have participated in the beating the footballer received are still being hunted by detectives.
Correa Freitas’ club, who play in the equivalent of the English Premier League, tweeted after his body was found: “The Sao Paulo football club deeply regrets the death of midfielder Daniel Correa Freitas.”
A tweet from his old side Botafogo said: “Botafogo regrets the demise of former player Daniel Correa Freitas and expresses solidarity with friends and family.”
