Ex-Man City and Real Madrid forward Robinho helps create 'jail Tinder' in Brazilian prison following nine-year rape conviction

According toSport, Robinho and fellow inmates at the Dr. Jose Augusto Cesar Salgado P2 prison in Tremembe, Sao Paulo state, have devised their own offline version of dating app Tinder. This has been set up with a women's penitentiary around five kilometres away, where prisoners send each other photos and guards read the letters exchanged between them.

Robinho was sentenced to nine years in jail in March 2024 after being found guilty of gang rape in an Italian nightclub in January 2013. The former Manchester City man, 40, was one of six men who were found guilty by an Italian court of assaulting an Albanian woman.

The report adds that unlike many of his fellow prisoners, Robinho was not allowed 11 days of freedom over the Christmas period. This meant he had no family time with his wife Vivian and their three children at their home in Santos.

Former Brazil international Robinho, who was initially sentenced in 2017 but it took seven years to resolve the case, will still have to serve many more years in prison before his release.