Thirty years of imprisonment: this is the request for conviction by the Prosecutor’s Office Catania For Martina Pattithe 25 years old confesses crime of the murder from the daughter Elena, almost 5 yearskilled with a knife in June 2022 and buried in a field near her home, in Mascalucia.
The deputy prosecutor Fabio Scavone and the substitute Assunta Musella they asked to recognize the generic mitigating circumstances, in consideration of the confession and collaboration of the accused, of her young age, equivalent to the contested aggravating circumstances.
The proceedings are celebrated in front of the premiere Court of Assizeschaired by Sebastiano Mignemi. The prosecution charges her with the crimes of aggravated premeditated murder, concealment of a corpse and simulation of a crime. The paternal grandparents and the father of the little victim joined the lawyer as civil parties Barbara Ronsivalle. The accused is assisted by criminal lawyers Gabriele Celesti and Tommaso Tamburino. Sentencing is scheduled for July 12.
The proceeding was based on investigations by the Carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania. There woman it would have killed there small In the place of the discovery, an abandoned field near home and then he would have pretended The seizure from the girl upon leaving kindergarten. Martina Patti confessed to the crime, but she did not explain the motive.
The reconstruction of the facts
The evening before she was killed, the girl has slept come on grandparents. The next morning her aunt accompanied her to kindergarten and her mother went to pick her up and returned home, to Mascalucia. Subsequently Martina Patti she went out again with the car, to create a diversion, then returned to the house.
It’s in that time frame that it would have been clerk The crime, in a vacant lot where the mother has buried The little body, hidden in five black plastic bags and half buried with a shovel and a pickaxe. There 25 years old triggered the staging: he notified Elena’s parents and father, her ex-partner, by telephone of the false kidnapping Alessandro Del Pozzoshe returned home and afterwards, accompanied by her mother and father, she went to the Carabinieri to report the false kidnapping.
To the military personnel he associated the seizure with some threats that the ex-partner had found in front of the house gate in 2021, but his version did not stand up to the findings and investigations of the Carabinieri and the objections raised by the Catania Prosecutor’s Office.
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