Ex boxing champion held over wife’s death kills himself in jail

FORMER boxing champion Edwin Valero took his own life in his jail cell in Venezuela just hours after he was arrested over his wife’s killing, police said yesterday.

The former lightweight champion used his own clothes to hang himself in his cell early yesterday, Venezuelan federal police chief Wilmer Flores said. Valero tied his clothes to a cell bar to hang himself.

He said Valero was found by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lock-up in north-central Carabobo state. Valero still showed signs of life but they were unable to save him, Flores said.