8 Risk Jail If Found Guilty Of Negligence In Maradona’s Death

No fewer than eight medical personnel may face up to 25 years in prison if they are found guilty of negligence in the death of legendary Argentine football player Diego Armando Maradona.

They are all to stand trial after being accused of criminal negligence will be tried on a legal definition of homicide which is based on negligence committed in the knowledge that it may lead to a person’s death.

According to Argentina’s penal code, the crime can hold a sentence of eight to 25 years in prison.

A judge had ordered a culpable homicide trial after a medical panel found Maradona’s treatment was rife with “deficiencies and irregularities”.

In 2021, the panel of 20 experts appointed to examine his death found Maradona’s medical team acted in an “inappropriate, deficient and reckless manner”.

It also concluded that the footballer “would have had a better chance of survival” with adequate treatment in an appropriate medical facility, according to the court ruling.

Maradona gave up the ghost in November 2020 of a heart attack in Buenos Aires, aged 60. He had been recovering at home from surgery on a brain blood clot earlier that month.

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