Tuesday saw another hearing in the trial over the death of Argentine football star Diego Maradona, with two key witnesses: the player’s former partner Verónica Ojeda and his sister Rita.

Ojeda, who was Maradona’s partner between 2005 and 2014, is the mother of his youngest child, Diego Fernando. She spoke about the poor state of the former star in the days leading up to his death, claiming his caregivers “gave him alcohol.”

Among those she accused of failing to administer proper medical care to Maradona are two of the nurses who cared for him daily and the coordinator who oversaw them. Dahiana Madrid, one of those nurses, will undergo a separate process of trial by jury.

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Ojeda stated she “lost touch” with Maradona after the breakup but reconnected when their son was diagnosed with autism at age 3. However, the connection was “not always fluid and mostly........

© Buenos Aires Herald