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They allegedly bribed a public service representative to facilitate a favorable infra-murder path for an inmate in the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison. This is the accusation against the same prisoner, Mario Borrata, and his sister, Sara Borrata, against whom, this morning, the Central Investigative Unit of the Penitentiary Police carried out a precautionary measure: prison for the first and house arrest for the woman.
The story is the one that has involved in recent months the former guarantor of the prisoners of the province of Caserta Emanuela Belcuore, accused by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere of having done favors for Borrata, detained in the San Marino prison for murder and considered contiguous to the clan of the Casalesi, in exchange for money and luxury shoes, which would have been provided to her by Sara Borrata, who runs a clothing shop in Casal di Principe. For these facts, Belcuore has already settled for one year and ten months (with a suspended sentence) for the crimes of corruption and disclosure of official secrets.
The investigations, coordinated by the Sammaritan Prosecutor’s Office led by Pierpaolo Bruni, would have confirmed the accusations against Belcuore, in particular that the latter, between 2022 and the first part of 2023, while he was guarantor (he resigned in July 2023 after having undergone a search ), he allegedly had telephone conversations with Mario Borrata, who was using a cell phone that had been illicitly introduced into prison, informing him of the searches in order to allow him to hide the phone. Not only that: the guarantor would have worked to ensure that the prisoner had a positive service relationship, approaching – but without positive results – the director of the prison and the supervising magistrate; she would therefore have tried to favor Borrata in his prison journey.
Mario Borrata has been in prison for 13 years for the murder of the young Pietro Capone, which occurred on 14 October 2010 in Aversa, in Piazza Marconi. Borrata, then 19 years old, hit the victim with some fatal blows to the throat. In October 2011, the magistrate of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Stefania Amodeo, sentenced him to life imprisonment, despite the abbreviated sentence which gives the right to a discount of one third in the event of conviction. Accepting the requests of the prosecutor, Giorgia de Ponte, and supported by the civil parties constituted (the wife of Pietro Capone represented and defended by the lawyer Felice Belluomo, and the parents of the victim, represented and defended by the lawyer Massimo d’Errico), the Gup recognized Borrata guilty not only of the crime of premeditated murder aggravated by abject motives (the murder would have occurred for reasons of jealousy for Borrata’s advances towards the victim’s wife, which she always rejected) but also of the crime of sexual violence due to groping to the detriment of Capone’s wife which would have occurred the day before the crime, as reconstructed by the offended person.
