Florence, 18 July 2022 – It is not yet clear how the English tourist is died in hotel a Firenze and like yours mate remained badly injured. It can be seen from the last track that the investigators of the Florence mobile squad are chasing. That is to say: a lite in the hotel room and then a erotic game gone wrong. But there is one more detail: according to the investigators perhaps the extreme sex has not been consensual. There is the hypothesis of sexual violence. PM Ester Nocera opened a dossier per manslaughteragainst unknown persons.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 19 July, at the Forensic Medicine Institute in Florence the autopsy they toxicological tests on the tourist’s corpse, former Manchester rugby player, will help a lot to shed light on what happened on Saturday 16 July in the Hotel Continentale, in the Vicolo dell’Oro, a stone’s throw from Ponte Vecchio. These will be valuable tests to understand if the former player actually died for a heart attack as was currently assumed.
The couple, according to what was reconstructed by the investigators, had arrived in Florence on Friday 15 July. For them, according to the reconstruction, the trip to Italy had to represent the reconciliation after a moment of crisis. They went out for dinner on Friday night. Then they would drink out and return to the hotel late at night. Once in the room, the two would have it first quarreled and then they would have a sexual intercourse. Really bruises and from wounds on the woman’s body there is a suspicion that it may not have been consensual. The medical examiner would also have found the presence of bruises on the man’s neck. However, signs that could also be compatible with an erotic game that ended badly. For this reason it will be necessary to listen to the woman as soon as she is in a position to speak.
On Saturday morning, according to an initial reconstruction, the screams coming from the hotel room raised the alarm to staff and customers. Upon arrival of the ambulances, the lady appeared in desperate conditions and was transported and admitted to the Careggi hospital. There the woman regained consciousness and was operated on urgently. In the next few days she will be heard by the investigators hoping to shed light on what happened in the hotel room in Florence.