Tuesday’s hearing in the trial over the death of Diego Maradona saw another big blow for the accused, as Clinica Olivos ICU chief Fernando Villarejo admitted to receiving orders to keep the star under sedation.

“We had him sedated for 24 hours,” said Villarejo, who added the star’s chief medical adviser, Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov requested he do it, before claiming Maradona was “impossible to manage from a behavioral point of view, due to withdrawal.”

The ICU chief said he refused due to the risks, but that Luque and Cosachov insisted.........

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