Bruno Fernandes lover

Brazilian football star Bruno Fernandes has gone on trial, accused of ordering the killing of a former lover whose body has never been found.
Fernandes and two other defendants are charged with the murder of Eliza Samudio, who disappeared in June 2010. They deny any wrongdoing.

At the time, Fernandes was the goalkeeper for Brazil’s most popular club, Flamengo.
Ms Samudio had said that the married footballer was the father of her baby.
The trial in the town of Contagem, in the state of Minas Gerais, began on Monday morning.
As well as Fernandes, two others are charged with murder: Luiz Henrique Ferreira Romao, known as Macarrao, and former policeman Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, known as Bola.
Two other defendants, Fernandes’s ex-wife Dayanne Rodrigues and an ex-lover, Fernanda Gomes de Castro, face charges of abduction and false imprisonment.
Other accused people are set to face trial separately.
Prosecutors say Ms Samudio and her baby son were lured from Rio de Janeiro to Fernandes’s home in Minas Gerais on false promises that the footballer would accept the boy as his.
There, it is alleged, she was held captive. According to police reports, she was then strangled, her body cut up and parts were fed to dogs.
The baby was found a fortnight later in the home of friends of Dayanne Rodrigues.
Prosecutors say Fernandes did not want to accept the child as his and have to pay maintenance.
All the defendants have denied the accusations.
Fernandes was jailed for four and a half years in December 2010 after being found guilty in a separate trial of abducting and assaulting Ms Samudio the previous year.
Fernandes had been Flamengo’s goalkeeper since 2006.
(BBC News)