Maradona death trial: autopsy showed the star suffered ‘about 12 hours of agony’ |
Argentine football star Diego Maradona suffered “about 12 hours of agony before he passed,” on November 25, 2020, said Carlos Casinelli, the forensic scientist who performed the autopsy on the former star’s corpse.
Casinelli was the key witness in Thursday’s hearing on the trial over Maradona’s death, which also heard testimony from two of the doctors who cared for him when he was head coach at football club Gimnasia Esgrima La Plata.
“He had water everywhere,” said Casinelli, adding Maradona’s face, fingers and feet were swollen. “It was a generalized edema.”
The forensic expert accompanied his testimony with photographs from Maradona’s autopsy, prompting his daughter Giannina to leave the courtroom.
Casinelli said he estimated the time of his passing at........