Venezuelan boxing champ admits killing wifeReuters
Sunday, April 18, 2010; 4:45 PM
CARACAS (Reuters) - Champion Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero admitted killing his wife and was arrested on Sunday, police and judicial authorities said.
The attorney-general's office said in a statement Valero, 28, confessed to murdering Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero, 24, overnight at the InterContinental hotel in Valencia.
She died of stab wounds.
The statement said Valero would be charged with the slaying. "Valero went down to a hotel reception and confessed to the employees that he had carried out the murder," it said.
Valero, nicknamed "The Inca", had held the World Boxing Council lightweight title but has had a troubled start to 2010 and is listed by the WBC as "champion in recess".
Valero was detained in March for mistreating his wife and has also had treatment for alcohol problems.
Valero is a supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, with whom he once shadow-boxed in jest during an event on live TV.
Mexico's Humberto Soto has taken the Venezuelan's place as current WBC lightweight champion.
(Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne and Enrique Pretel, editing by Philip Barbara)
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