Inside Robinho’s new life in jail: Ex-Man City star ‘is locked up with man who killed his personal daughter – as inmates at jail the place he’s serving 9 years for rape create model of TINDER with feminine prisoners’

Former Manchester City star Robinho is serving his jail sentence in Brazil with some reportedly disreputable company – including a woman who stabbed her husband 56 times and was dumped by her prison beau. 

Robinho was condemned to nine years behind bars last March after lengthy legal battles, having initially being found guilty of gang rape and sentenced in Italy in 2017. 

He was one of six men who were found guilty of assaulting an Albanian woman in an Italian nightclub in January 2013.   

Robinho now resides in the infamous Dr. Jose Augusto Cesar Salgado P2 prison in Tremembe, Sao Paulo state, nicknamed ‘the prison of the famous’. 

Its sickening cast of high-profile inmates include a man who killed his own daughter; one who is locked up for 98 years after kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old girl; and a former doctor who abused 39 sedated patients. 

Moreover, the inmates have devised their own offline version of dating app Tinder which sees guards help pair them up, according to SPORT and journalist Ullisses Campbell. 

Former Manchester City star Robinho is serving nine years behind bars in Brazil for gang rape

His prison in Tremembe houses high-profile criminals, and inmates have established their own version of Tinder 

Many inmates were allowed out over Christmas but Robinho was not deemed eligible

The dating network has been set up with a women’s penitentiary around five kilometres away, with prisoners sending each other photos and guards reading the letters exchanged between them. 

In one case, a woman who was jailed for stabbing her husband 56 times was reportedly dumped by a man who killed his brother. 

The man, named Vinicius Nunes, was unimpressed that Jaqueline Moraes looked ‘thinner and younger’ in person than she had in the photos, and he ended up getting engaged to another woman through the dating service. 

In Robinho’s prison, inmates are made to squeeze into cells ranging between eight and 15 metres squared, with some housing six.

Around 2,500 prisoners are housed at the facility, which is near where Arsenal star Gabriel Jesus grew up, but there are no gang leaders there for fear of violence. 

Many of them were released for 11 days over Christmas, but Robinho was not deemed eligible for the festive perk, meaning he had no family time with his wife Vivian and their three children at their home in Santos.

The 117 prisoners at Robinho’s particular facility who benefited from 11 days of freedom included Lindemberg Alves, according to local reports.

He was sentenced to 39 years in prison in 2013 over the October 2008 kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old former girlfriend Eloa Cristina Pimentel, held hostage for 100 hours before being shot dead.

Robinho was placed in this police car following his arrest in the beachfront city of Santos

Robinho was capped 100 times by Brazil in his playing career, scoring 28 international goals

Robinho had initially been sentenced in 2017 but it took seven years to bring him to justice. 

Italian authorities had wanted him to serve nine years in Italy, but he was in Brazil, where the law typically forbids the extraditions of native criminals.

Italy appealed for him to be extradited in 2022 before a landmark ruling by Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (BSCJ) sentenced him in his homeland. 

Robinho, who was 28 and playing for AC Milan at the time of the gang rape, admitted during his appeal to having ‘contact’ with the woman, but the Brazilian insisted it was consensual.

The Milan Court of Appeals found Robinho had ‘belittled’ and ‘brutally humiliated’ the victim as it upheld his original sentence in December 2020.

Intercepted phone calls between the Brazilian and those allegedly involved in the assault were used as key evidence in his initial conviction.

Robinho had said: ‘It makes me laugh because I’m not interested, the woman was drunk, she doesn’t even know what happened.’

The forward had secured a transfer back to Santos in 2020 where he was handed a contract that was worth minimum wage.

Italian authorities had wanted to lock him up there but failed in their pursuit of extradition

But he was forced to tear up the contract amid outcry over his signing, with a major sponsor pulling its support for the football club.

The winger came through the Santos academy where he was seen as one of Brazil’s rising stars.

He would go on to play 137 matches for Real Madrid, 53 for Man City and 144 for AC Milan during his playing career. 

He also made 100 appearances for the Brazil national side.