HONDURAS: FOOTBALL / SOCCER Tottenham Hotspur's Wilson Palacios returns to Honduras after reports that the dead body of his kidnapped brother had been found

Record ID: 862114

  • Title: HONDURAS: FOOTBALL / SOCCER Tottenham Hotspur's Wilson Palacios returns to Honduras after reports that the dead body of his kidnapped brother had been found
  • Date: 13th May 2009
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE) (REUTERS) WILSON PALACIOS PLAYING FOOTBALL SOCCER WITH TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR UNIDENTIFIED FILM LOCATION IN CANADA (FILE) (REUTERS) WILSON PALACIOS PLAYING WITH HONDURAS NATIONAL TEAM
  • Embargoed: 28th May 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Honduras
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  • Country: Honduras
  • Topics: Sports
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  • Story Text: Tottenham Hotspur withdrew Honduran midfielder Wilson Palacios from the match against Everton on Saturday (May 9) after reports that the dead body of his kidnapped brother had been discovered in Honduras.
    Edwin Palacios, the youngest brother of the 24-year-old Spurs midfielder, was kidnapped from his parents' house in October 2007.
    Honduran authorities believe the body they found 150 miles (240 km) north of the capital Tegucigalpa was that of the kidnapped teenager.
    Wilson's brothers visited the site where the body was found and comforted each other.
    Honduras' attorney general's office said clothing found matched what Palacios was wearing when he was kidnapped, but they would carry out forensic dental records and DNA tests to confirm it.

    "Forensic investigators will determine, through different exams they will carry out, if it is him (Edwin Palacios) or another person,"
    Police Commissioner, Javier Lopez, told Reuters.
    Police suspect the kidnappers belonged to violent street gangs in Honduras, one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America.
    Palacios' family paid a ransom of around $200,000 to the kidnappers but their son was not released, said local police.
    Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp told Sky Sports News after the match against Everton ended in a 0-0 draw that it had been a bad day and they had received a message at seven o'clock in the morning that Wilson had to rush home and that the young boy could have been killed.
    If the body is confirmed to be that of Edwin Palacios, Wilson Palacios will be the second Tottenham player to have lost a brother in recent weeks.
    Last month Jade Defoe, the 26-year-old brother of striker Jermain Defoe, died after being attacked in east London.
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