THE final photos of rugby star Ricky Bibey and his Brit girlfriend present the pair strolling to their lodge with a thriller couple at 4am.
Dad-of-two Bibey, 40, was discovered useless within the £350-a-night Lodge Continentale within the Italian metropolis of Florence on Saturday after a “intercourse sport went fallacious”.
CCTV footage obtained by Mail On-line reveals Bibey’s lover strolling down a facet avenue shortly after 4am near the four-star lodge the place they had been staying.
Sporting an extended gown and sandals, the girl seems first within the footage adopted by Bibey and a thriller couple who haven’t been recognized.
The lady – understood to be a mum from Manchester – seems unsteady on her ft as she reaches into her purse earlier than going out of shot.
Bibey, sporting a light-weight prime and shorts, seems to be pointing at one thing forward of him as he talks to the unidentified girl.
Lower than three hours after the footage was taken, paramedics raced to the lodge after his girlfriend known as the emergency companies.
Bibey was pronounced useless on the scene, with an post-mortem reportedly confirming he died from a coronary heart assault.
His blood-soaked girlfriend reportedly screamed “Oh my God, he is useless?” after cops informed her the rugby league star had died.
The 44-year-old girl was given the tragic information at her bedside in hospital and needed to be calmed down by medical employees, a report claimed.
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The lady – whose identification has not been revealed – was reportedly seen half-naked and coated in blood working into the lodge hallway calling for assist from friends and employees, in line with Italian information shops.
She suffered from wounds together with to her neck and was rushed to Florence’s Careggi hospital the place she underwent surgical procedure for a haemorrhage.
A prosecution insider informed the Mail On-line that the Brit was in a critical however steady situation.
The supply mentioned: “After we informed her that her companion had died she screamed ‘Oh my God – he is useless?’
“She mentioned she had no thought after which she needed to be calmed down. She was in a horrible approach and has had a number of operations.”
They mentioned cops had been “unlikely” to query her for a number of days till getting the all-clear from her docs.
Investigators are piecing collectively how the previous England prop-forward died within the couple’s swanky lodge room on Saturday.
A autopsy is because of be carried out later this week following a delay over “household issues” and it is believed Bibey’s brother is now within the central Italian metropolis.
The MailOnline can be mentioned to have seen a file for “manslaughter in opposition to individuals unknown” being offered by Florence prosecutor Ester Nocera – although cops stay happy no third celebration was concerned within the deadly incident.
The identical supply informed the outlet: “We’ve got to open an official file as a result of in the meanwhile we nonetheless have an unexplained dying in circumstances which are removed from clear.
“Extra will likely be defined once we communicate to the girl correctly and when the outcomes of the put up mortem are recognized.
“What we do know is that the couple returned from an evening out within the early hours of the morning after which went to their room on the primary flooring and we all know they began having consensual intercourse.
“However what we have to set up is that if one thing occurred later to make that intercourse non consensual and solely the girl can inform us that.”
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They mentioned Bibey was discovered with marks on his neck and wrists and prosecutors need to set up in the event that they had been inflicted throughout consensual intercourse or whether or not the 40-year-old was making an attempt to defend himself.
Bibey’s hospital-bound Brit companion was additionally discovered with accidents to her physique.
The insider mentioned cops had been investigating whether or not it was a case of consensual intercourse turned dangerous.
“At this second we can’t exclude any concept and that is why we actually want to talk to the girl to get a clearer image of what occurred,” they mentioned.
“It may have been an erotic sport that went fallacious which led to his dying from some type of medical incident, we simply do not know but.”
Police have recovered objects from the couple’s room and medical specialists are mentioned to be inspecting pictures of the Manchester girl’s accidents.
La Nazione and La Repubblica newspapers reported how docs the place she was being handled mentioned the medicine exams had come again optimistic earlier than an operation.
It is understood the couple’s first-floor room on the Lodge Continentale in Florence has been blocked off with corridors resulting in it being sectioned off and a hand sanitiser unit in place in entrance.
The couple landed at Pisa airport final Friday and took a prepare to Florence the place they checked into their lodge going out for the night time.
A supply near the investigation informed The Occasions that Bibey presumably died of a coronary heart assault throughout a “intercourse sport”.
Lodge employees had been alerted by shouting and screaming within the room simply earlier than 8am Saturday native time, in line with Corriere Della Sera.
Bibey’s physique was found lifeless on the lodge room flooring.
The supply mentioned cops had been additionally assessing whether or not this was a case of home abuse, although the “normal path is that of an erotic sport”.
They mentioned: “The person was discovered with a sequence of cuts, bruises and different accidents on his physique and so was the girl, though she was extra significantly harm and the person seems to have had some type of seizure.
“There’s blood within the room and the forensic groups are working there in the meanwhile whereas the girl has been taken to hospital for remedy.
“Her present situation is critical however she is steady and her accidents usually are not life-threatening. We hope to query her in some unspecified time in the future within the subsequent few hours.”
Italian outlet La Reppublica claims the girl informed employees she noticed her 40-year-old companion collapse to the bottom in what’s believed to have been brought on by a coronary heart assault.