Champ fighter hold over wifes attempted murder takes his own life

FORMER fighting hold up Edwin Valero – who gained celebrity for knocking out all his twenty-seven opponents and carrying a permanent skin stain of Venezuelan boss Hugo Chavez on his chest – died in prison yesterday after he was arrested for his wifes murder. The former lightweight hold up hanged himself in his cell, Venezuelan Federal Police arch Wilmer Flores said.He pronounced Valero was found by an additional inmate, who alerted authorities in the military cell.The fighter still showed signs of hold up when prADVERTISEMENTison staff took him down, but they were incompetent to save him and he died about 1:30am, Mr Flores said.The 28-year-old was incarcerated on Sunday on guess of murdering his wife, Jennifer Viera. Prosecutors pronounced they had programmed to assign Valero for the killing.The former WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight hold up was incarcerated after military found the physique of his 24-year-old mother in a road house in Valencia. Valero left the road house room around emergence on Sunday and allegedly told security he had killed his wife, Mr Flores said.Valero was a domicile name in Venezuela and had a outrageous picture of boss Chavez tattooed on his chest along with the countrys yellow, blue and red flag.His all-action character and 27-0 jot down – all by impressive person – warranted him a repute as a tough, bomb crowd-pleaser. Venezuelans called him "Inca" alluding to an Indian warrior, whilst elsewhere he was called "Dinamita" or dynamite.Valero had been in difficulty with the law before. Last month, he was charged with badgering his mother and melancholy healing crew who treated with colour with colour her at a sanatorium in the horse opera city of Merida. Police arrested him following an evidence with a alloy and helper at the hospital, where his mother was being treated with colour with colour for a array of injuries, together with a punctured lung and damaged ribs.The Attorney Generals Office pronounced in a matter that Valero was incarcerated on twenty-five Mar on guess of assaulting his wife, but she told a military military officer her injuries were due to a fall. When the fighter arrived moments later, he forbade Ms Viera from vocalization to the military officer, and spoke threateningly to the officer, prosecutors pronounced in a statement.The Attorney Generals Office pronounced a prosecutor had asked a justice to sequence Valero jailed, but that the decider instead placed him underneath a confining sequence that barred him from going nearby his mother – a condition he regularly violated.Police found 3 gash wounds on Ms Vieras body, but investigators who searched the road house bedrooms had nonetheless to find the arms used in the killing, Mr Flores said.In the ring, Valero shot to celebrity when he won his initial eighteen fights by first-round knockout, environment a jot down that has given been eclipsed by US middleweight Tyrone Brunson, who available nineteen first-round knockouts.Valero was transposed as WBC lightweight hold up in Feb after he voiced a enterprise to debate in a higher weight division, WBC boss Jose Sulaiman said.