The Federal Police of Brazil announced this Friday that they have identified the remains of the British journalist Dom Phillips, who disappeared on June 5 in the Amazon in the company of Brazilian expert Bruno Pereira. A poacher had confessed to the crime.
The expert evidence was carried out on the “material” found in a remote area of the Amazon jungle where one of the suspects in his death said he had buried Phillips, next to Pereira’s body. “The confirmation was made based on the forensic odontology exam combined with forensic anthropology,” the authority said in a statement.
The police added that they are working to establish the “complete identification” of the material found in the area, where the body of Pereira, a renowned Brazilian expert on indigenous peoples, is also believed to have been buried.
The remains of Phillips, 57, a contributor to The Guardian newspaper, were in an area identified by fisherman Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, known as ‘Pelado’, who on Tuesday confessed to having buried the bodies in the jungle, near the city. of Atalaia do Norte.
The next day, ‘Pelado’, one of the two suspects captured for the crime, led the authorities to the place where he buried them.
Disappeared since June 5
The police found the human remains there and transferred them by plane to Brasilia on Thursday, where this Friday they are still under analysis, “to establish the causes of death, as well as to indicate the dynamics of the crime and the concealment of the bodies,” he added. The authority.
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Phillips and Pereira, 41, were in the Amazon as part of preparing a book on environmental conservation.
They were last seen on June 5, when they were going by boat to Atalaia do Norte, in the Javarí Valley, an area known for its danger and where there are illicit activities, such as drug trafficking and illegal fishing and mining.