Former Manchester City star Robinho is reportedly serving his jail sentence in Brazil with some disreputable company – including a woman who stabbed her husband 56 times and was dumped by her prison beau.

Robinho was condemned to nine years behind bars last March after lengthy legal battles, having initially being found guilty of gang rape and sentenced in Italy in 2017.

He was one of six men who were found guilty of assaulting an Albanian woman in an Italian nightclub in January 2013.

Robinho now resides in the infamous Dr. Jose Augusto Cesar Salgado P2 prison in Tremembe, Sao Paulo state, nicknamed ‘the prison of the famous’.

Its sickening cast of high-profile inmates include a man who killed his own daughter; one who is locked up for 98 years after kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old girl; and a former doctor who abused 39 sedated patients.

Moreover, the inmates have devised their own offline version of dating app Tinder which sees guards help pair them up, according to SPORT and journalist Ullisses Campbell.

The dating network has been set up with a women’s penitentiary around five kilometres away, with prisoners sending each other photos and guards reading the letters exchanged between them.

In one case, a woman who was jailed for stabbing her husband 56 times was reportedly dumped by a man who killed his brother.

The man, named Vinicius Nunes, was unimpressed that Jaqueline Moraes looked ‘thinner and younger’ in person than she had in the photos, and he ended up getting engaged to another woman through the dating service.

In Robinho’s prison, inmates are made to squeeze into cells ranging between eight and 15 metres squared, with some housing six.

Around 2,500 prisoners are housed at the facility, which is near where Arsenal star Gabriel Jesus grew up, but there are no gang leaders there for fear of violence.

Many of them were released for 11 days over Christmas, but Robinho was not deemed eligible for the festive perk, meaning he had no family time with his wife Vivian and their three children at their home in Santos.

The 117 prisoners at Robinho’s particular facility who are benefited from 11 days of freedom included Lindemberg Alves, according to local reports.

He was sentenced to 39 years in prison in 2013 over the October 2008 kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old former girlfriend Eloa Cristina Pimentel, held hostage for 100 hours before being shot dead.