Australian rugby league player Liam Hampson’s body was found inside an internal patio which didn’t form part of the “public area” of the Barcelona nightspot where he died following a suspected fall, Spanish police said.
After failing to offer any initial detailed explanation of why workers at the popular nightspot Sala Apolo took more than 30 hours to raise the alarm, regional Mossos d’Esquadra officers elaborated on where the 24-year-old rising NRL star had been located.
The police spokesman said: “It was in an internal patio which was not part of the public area of the nightclub.