How the final journey of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira ended in tragedy

Atalaia do Norte, the river town in the state of Amazonas from which Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira set out on 2 June. Photograph: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images

Dom Phillips loved the Amazon and he loved the Amazon’s fish. His favourite was the tucunaré, a speckled South American peacock bass whose Indigenous name means “friend of the trees”.

It was in a hotel room named after the tucunaré that the British journalist spent his last night before venturing into the jungle with the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira on the afternoon of Thursday 2 June.