Robinho to serve nine-year jail term in Brazil after Italy rape conviction

Robinho is serving a jail term (Victor R. Caivano/AP)

Former football star Robinho has turned himself in to start serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy.

The 40-year-old left his apartment building in the beachfront city of Santos, outside Sao Paulo, in a black police car.