By Reuters
CARACAS (Reuters) - Champion Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero committed suicide in the early hours of Monday by hanging himself from the bars of a prison cell where he had been detained for killing his wife, local media said.
Valero, who had held the WBC lightweight title, was found in his cell with some signs of life but did not survive, police chief Wilmer Flores Trosel was quoted as telling reporters.
The 28-year-old, nicknamed "The Inca", was charged at the weekend with stabbing his wife to death in a room at the InterContinental Hotel in the city of Valencia.
Police said on Sunday that he had confessed to the crime and would be charged with murdering Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero, 24.
Valero had a troubled start to 2010, detained in March for mistreating his wife and receiving treatment for alcohol problems. He was listed by the WBC as its "champion in recess" in the lightweight category.
Valero was a supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He had a Venezuelan flag with an image of Chavez tattooed on his chest, and he once shadow-boxed in jest with the Venezuelan leader during an event on live TV.
(Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; editing by Paul Simao)
Source: washingtonpost.com
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