Pat Hickey's wife told Brazilian police husband had returned to Ireland

The wife of Pat Hickey, the president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, told detectives her husband had already returned to Ireland when they arrived at his hotel room to arrest him, police said.

Officers arrived at the Windsor Marapendi hotel in Rio de Janeiro at 6am to find his wife alone in bed, but her husband’s possessions still in the room, they said.

When asked where he was, she told them he had already returned to Ireland. Police eventually found Hickey in another, otherwise empty, room registered in the name of his son.