According to reports, ex-rugby league star Ricky Bibey was found dead in a Florence hotel room in Italy alongside a seriously injured woman. The Daily Mail reports that he died in a four-star £350-a-night.
Former rugby league star Ricky Bibey has been found dead in a £350-a-night riverside hotel in Florence, Italy.
The ex-sportsman, who retired from the game in 2012, died yesterday morning.
The 40-year-old made 215 appearances for five rugby league sides, including three stints at hometown club Leigh Centurions.
Bibey was identified by police, according to local newspaper La Nazione.
He is understood to have arrived in the picturesque city with a woman on Friday night and they arrived back at the Hotel Continentale ‘in high spirits’ at 2am on Saturday.
The woman is understood to have been found bloodied and bruised before being taken to hospital.
Today police sources in Florence told MailOnline they hoped to question the woman this evening or at the latest tomorrow morning.
An insider said: ‘She is recovering but is still sedated so we are waiting for the go ahead from medical staff at the hospital.
‘She has not been arrested and it will not be a formal questioning it’s more a question of trying to understand what happened in the room.
‘The hope was for an autopsy to be carried out on the man sometime today but that will now happen on Monday.
‘That will establish levels of alcohol and if any drugs were present but at this moment all we know for certain is that no third party was involved. We are satisfied of that.’
It appears he was in the hotel with a hooker when things got way out of hand. Very sad turn of events, hopefully she wakes up and can shed some light on what happened in that room because from the videos it look like something insane happened.
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