🚨 BREAKING: Here’s the Key Piece of Evidence That Helped Identify Diogo Jota at the Crash Scene — And the Heartbreaking Reason He Couldn’t Be Recognized “By Normal Means” 😢
Newly revealed evidence has shed light on how Diogo Jota was identified at the crash site, with a deeply tragic reason behind why he couldn’t be recognized using standard methods.
💥 What made the identification process so difficult in those crucial moments?
⚠️ The truth behind this heartbreaking situation is more disturbing than we could have imagined.
A piece of evidence from the crash site of Diogo Jota’s death was reportedly used to help confirm the Liverpool star and his brother Andre Silva’s identities.
Diogo Jota has died in a car accident in Spain along with his brother (Image: Getty)
Diogo Jota’s identity was confirmed with a licence plate after the Liverpool star died in a fire following his tragic car accident. The Reds forward, 28, was killed along with his 26-year-old brother and fellow footballer Andre Silva on Thursday in Zamora, Spain.
Police said that their vehicle – a Lamborghini – veered off the road following a tyre blowout while they were overtaking another car at around 00:30 local time. The vehicle then went up in flames, with pictures revealing the harrowing aftermath. Fire services were called to the scene to extinguish the blaze, which spread to nearby vegetation. Despite the car being incinerated, their identities were able to be confirmed due to documents found at the scene and in the car, according to Jornal de Noticias.
It is understood that a licence plate was the key indicator that the two professional footballers had perished in the fire.
Spanish outlet La Opinion El Correo de Zamora reported that forensic experts conducting the autopsy on the bodies had to resort to DNA tests to confirm their identities.
Ángel Blanco, the Spanish government’s sub-delegate in Zamora, explained that during the autopsy, attempts would be made to obtain fingerprints and DNA tests would be sent to Madrid for analysis and legal confirmation of the victims’ identities. The autopsy was conducted at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Zamora.
A matching licence plate was found in the crash wreckage (Image: AS)
La Opinion also reported that the footballer’s family arrived at the Institute of Legal Medicine around noon local time on Thursday. Diogo’s wife Rute Cardoso had married him just 11 days ago.
Cardoso, who has three children with Jota, informed police that the two brothers’ intention was to spend the night in Benavente, northwest Spain, and continue their journey on Thursday to reach Santander before catching a ferry to Portsmouth, according to reports in Portugal.
Psychological support was requested for Jota’s wife and the personal belongings that were saved from the fire were handed to her. It was one of the brothers’ relatives who alerted them that they had not arrived in Benavente, and later, they verified in the documentation that they were Portuguese subjects.
