The Assize Court of Agrigento, presided over by Alfonso Malato, sentenced the 78-year-old tobacconist from Canicattì Luigi Lalomia to 14 and a half years of imprisonment accused of having run over and killed his future father-in-law to block his son’s wedding.
As argued by the defendant’s defense, the lawyer Calogero Meli, the Court ruled out that it was a voluntary homicide.
The death of the sixty-year-old Mario Vincenzo Lauricella would be an unintended consequence of the attack which, moreover, was not premeditated.
The charge of attempted murder against the victim’s daughter or fiancée and betrothed to the accused’s son was also dropped: the girl was with her father when the accused’s Doblò van crashed into them.
Also in this case the judges reclassified the charge as personal injury. The Agrigento prosecutor’s office had requested a 26-year sentence for the original charges of premeditated murder and attempted murder.
Lauricella, according to the initial reconstruction of the episode made by the policemen of the Canicattì police station, on 30 May 2021, would have been beaten and hit with a van as part of a conflict linked to the future marriage of their children which would not have been appreciated from Lalomia.
Lauricella then died on 16 July.
Lalomia will also have to compensate the family members, who have been made civil parties with the assistance of the lawyer Salvatore Amato. The Court established a provisional amount of between 10 and 25 thousand euros.
