It is a brazen, shocking kidnap that has stunned the world. Last Saturday night, as he was resting ahead of Liverpool's game against Nottingham Forest, Luis Diaz — the brilliant Colombian forward and darling of the Kop — got a call that changed everything.
The 26-year-old learned the news from home that his parents had been snatched at gunpoint and bundled on to stolen motorbikes as they stopped to pick up watermelons at a petrol station.
They were in their Kia car — red, of course — at 5.