Three charged over murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Spiritual leaders preside over a service promoted by inter-religious organizations in honor of British journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira killed in the Amazon region, at the Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, July 16, 2022 (Marcelo Chello/AP/PA)

Public prosecutors have charged three men with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, according to a statement.

All are local river dwellers, and their motive was that Mr Pereira asked Mr Phillips to photograph them when they passed by in a boat, the statement said.