VIDEO: Wife told police Pat Hickey had gone back to Ireland

The wife of Pat Hickey, the president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, lied to detectives when they arrived at his hotel room to arrest him, police said.

The Hospital Samaritano, in Rio, where Pat Hickey was brought for tests after being arrested by police. Picture: Dan Sheridan

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 Mr Hickey in another, otherwise empty room registered in the name of his son.