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The British man found dead inside a lavish hotel room after an apparent erotic game gone wrong has been named as a former professional rugby player.
Ex-rugby league player Ricky Bibey died Saturday at the four-star Hotel Continentale in Florence, Italy. The 40-year-old one-time prop forward, from Manchester, retired in 2012.
Police believe Bibey died after a night of “extreme sex and erotic games” went wrong. Authorities discovered “some objects that would corroborate the hypothesis of a sexual game to the limit,” according to local newspaper La Nazione. Hotel guests are also alleged to have heard screams coming from the room.