The daughter of Daniel Correa’s murderer has recalled the evening that ended with the former Sao Paulo and Botafogo midfielder being violently murdered
A daughter has spoken of the shocking night when her dad murdered a footballer after a WhatsApp prank went very wrong.
Allana Brittes, now 26, had been celebrating her 18th birthday at a club in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2018 before the night took a very dark turn.
Hours later, former Sao Paulo and Botafogo midfielder Daniel Correa Freitas was dead, castrated and his throat slit with such force that he was almost beheaded.
Allana has since recalled how she met the footballer at a nightclub and he ended up back at her house where the party continued unplanned.
Speaking in 2024, on Domingo Espetacular, Allana admitted she first knew Correa, who was on loan at San Bento, from Instagram: “It was a ‘party friendship,’ after all, I was only 17 years old and was in the phase of socialising.”
Allana, her friends and family plus Correa were all present in the VIP section of a Curitiba nightclub, where, Allana claims, Correa kissed one of her pals as the celebrations went around them.
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Allana left the nightclub with her family, assuring everyone the night was over for her. “Since I had already partied at the club, I didn’t plan any kind of ‘after-party’.
“I remember my father made food for my mother, and then we stayed outside for a while, talking, dancing, and my mother asked to go to bed.”
However, she soon received a text from one of her friends, Evellyn, who had been at the party: “She texted me saying, ‘don’t be mad at me, I’m coming to your house.’ And I didn’t understand, because I hadn’t invited anyone.”
Evellyn warned Allana she had some other uninvited guests, including Correa: “I remember her saying ‘the player is with us, but I don’t want to be with him. He’s being invasive, touching me’.”
The evening took a turn when Edison Luiz Brittes Júnior, Allana’s father, discovered Correa in his bedroom with his wife, Cristiana Brittes.
Correa had sent a WhatsApp image to his friends with pictures showing him grinning next to a sleeping Cristiana.
Messages were uncovered of him bragging to pals: “I can sleep here. There are several women sleeping all over the house” and another said: “I’m going to eat the birthday girl’s mum…and the dad is here.”
One friend, responding to the image, told Correa they would make “mincemeat” of him.
Speaking on the same programme as her daughter, a teary Cristiana remembered: “I was violated. I was invaded. I was abused. He took off his pants, climbed on top of me, rubbed his genitals against me and took pictures.”
Edison managed to get into the room through a window, Allana recalled: “I remember seeing my father in a way I’d never seen him before.
“He was extremely distraught, with a look of hatred and anger; it seemed like he couldn’t believe any of it. Everyone was in shock.”
With the help of some friends, Edison attacked Correa – with reports at the time suggesting Correa suffered a blow to the head before being stuffed into the boot of a car and transported to woodland, where his dismembered corpse was eventually discovered.
Correa had been castrated and had his throat slit with such force that he was almost beheaded.
Edison, after initially denying the crime, was sentenced to 42 years, 5 months, and 25 days in prison once found guilty of Correa’s murder. Cristiana received a sentence of 6 months in prison and 1 year of open-regime confinement for procedural fraud.
These days, Allana works as an influencer while being happily married to David Vollero, one of the men who witnessed Correa’s murder: “David always made it very clear to me, from the beginning, that neither he nor the boys had done anything.
“That they hit him, yes, but from the moment they got in the car, they didn’t do anything else…He was acquitted and I believe justice was served, because he didn’t participate in the homicide, only in the assaults.
“I know he didn’t kill and has no involvement whatsoever in Daniel’s death. David and I are certainly part of God’s plan.”