Dani Alves 'parties until 5am just days after he was released on bail as he appeals rape conviction

Disgraced Brazilian footballer, Dani Alves reportedly spent one of his first nights of freedom partying until 5 am with friends, according to Spanish media.

The former Barcelona defender was released from Brians 2 prison on Monday after 15 months spent behind bars awaiting his trial for raping a woman in December 2022.

The 40-year-old was found guilty in February of this year and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, but Alves is appealing the verdict after regaining freedom on bail.

Alves has surrended both his Spanish and Brazilian passports and will have mandatory once-a-week visits to the court to maintain his freedom, after first paying a €1million (£850,000) bail bond.

The disgraced player made most of life outside the prison walls, by going out to celebrate his father's recent birthday in style.

As per Spanish TV program 'This is Life', the day after Alves was released he hosted his family and friends at his house in Esplugues de Llobregat after they had attended a dinner party in Barcelona in honour of patriarch Domingos Alves Da Silva without him.

After dinner, the party made their way to Alves' £4.5m villa, with festivities thought to continue until five o'clock in the morning.

Alves was convicted of raping a 23-year-old woman in the toilet of an upscale Barcelona nightclub, Sutton, over a year-and-a-half ago.

The jail sentence he received, considered lenient by some critics, was far less than the nine years public prosecutors demanded and the 12 years Alves' female accuser wanted if he was convicted.