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'Kill everybody': Disturbing new claims in football star's plane crash death

Police have launched an investigation into claims of death threats amid the tragedy of Emiliano Sala’s death.

According to The UK Telegraph, police have opened an inquiry after accusations the man who booked Sala’s doomed flight threatened to “kill everybody” at Cardiff City Football Club – the team Sala had recently signed with.

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The Telegraph alleges player agent Willie McKay made the threats towards club officials on the weekend of Sala’s funeral in Argentina last month.

He allegedly told officials: “I’ll kill everybody if my sons get slaughtered.”

Emiliano Sala in action for Nantes. Image: Getty
Emiliano Sala in action for Nantes. Image: Getty

South Wales Police said it “can confirm that a complaint has been received from Cardiff City Football Club and is currently being investigated.”

McKay previously said his family had “been through hell” after receiving backlash about the tragedy.

Mark McKay, Willie’s eldest son, helped organise Sala’s transfer from French club Nantes to Cardiff, while Jack McKay helped with arrangements for the doomed flight across the English Channel.

McKay also accused Cardiff of “trying to throw me under the bus” over Sala’s death, as well as “abandoning” the footballer to make his own flight arrangements.

Football agent Willie McKay. (Photo by Mike Egerton – EMPICS/PA Images via Getty Images)
Football agent Willie McKay. (Photo by Mike Egerton – EMPICS/PA Images via Getty Images)

“He was abandoned in a hotel more or less to do his travel arrangements himself,” McKay told the BBC in an interview alongside son Mark.

“Nobody in Cardiff seemed to be doing anything. I think Cardiff let themselves down badly.

“The way they’ve acted so far, they’ve been a disgrace.”

Questions over legality of flight

Flown by pilot David Ibbotson, the small plane carrying the 28-year-old Argentine striker came down in the Channel en route to Cardiff on January 21, two days after he completed his transfer from French side Nantes.

Cardiff had previously said that they had offered their new forward a commercial flight, but Sala instead chose to fly privately.

Willie McKay told the BBC he arranged the ill-fated flight through an experienced pilot who had flown him and many of his players “all over Europe on countless occasions.”

New images of the wreckage of Sala’s plane. Image: Supplied
New images of the wreckage of Sala’s plane. Image: Supplied

The former agent said the pilot, David Henderson, did not own the plane and he did not know who Henderson was going to ask to fly it.

Britain’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said last week the private plane did not have a commercial licence.

However, it said the journey would have been allowed as a “private” flight in which costs are shared between pilot and passenger.

with agencies