Two new witnesses testified on Thursday in day four of the trial for the death of Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona. It was the turn of neighbour Colin Campbell and first responder Juan Carlos Pinto, both of whom attended to Maradona when he died.

Campbell is a medical doctor who lives in the private neighbourhood where Maradona’s home care had been set up. He was called by the neighborhood security team when they were alerted that the former star needed attention.

“There had been no vital signs for a long time,” he said, describing the situation he found upon arriving. He saw nurse Dahiana Madrid practising cardiac massages and guard Julio Coria providing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, with psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov watching the scene.

“His [body] temperature didn’t correlate with what they told me when I asked when he was last seen alive,” he said. Asked for how long he estimated Maradona had been deceased by the time he arrived, he said from “one to two hours.”

Campbell added there were no medical instruments, and that Maradona looked like he had been “bedridden for a long time” with “notable” inflation in the lower limbs. He also highlighted the state of hygiene of the house, claiming there was “none of the basic cleaning [items] required to attend to a person who had just been through surgery.”

First responder Pinto, the doctor who signed Maradona’s death certificate at 1:15 p.m., said that the patient “already showed signs of death” by the time he arrived. He used the defibrillator at the behest of the family, who “couldn’t accept he had passed.”

“We spent about 15 minutes more doing resuscitation, but there was no electric activity and the patient was showing death signs,” he said. “I told [Maradona’s ex-wife] Claudia Villafañe that he had died, but she said he wasn’t, and that they had to take him to a hospital.”

He explained that he found no medical equipment in the room and that Maradona “had been dead for at least two hours.” He added that the body was already showing typical post mortem signs life stifness.

“The time I signed in the certificate is the time I confirmed that the patient was dead, not the time he died.”

The doctors testimonies are particularly damning for the seven defendants, who claimed Maradona woke up, had breakfast and was found dead shortly later, claiming that the heart attack came without any warning signs.

The trial will continue next Tuesday, where more witnesses are set to testify.