asked for 30 years for Martina Patti

The Catania Prosecutor’s Office asked 30 years of imprisonment For Martina Patti, the 25-year-old confesses to the murder of her daughter Elena Del Pozzo, almost 5 years old, killed with a knife in June 2022 and buried in a field near her home, in Mascaluciain the Catania area.

The deputy prosecutor Fabio Scavone and the substitute Assunta Musella they asked to recognize the mitigating factors generic, in consideration of the confession and collaboration of the accused, of her young age, equivalent to aggravating contested.

The proceedings are taking place at the first Court of Assizes, presided over by Sebastiano Mignemi. The prosecution charges the woman 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 turned themselves in civil party, followed by the lawyer Barbara Ronsivalle. The accused, however, is assisted by criminal lawyers Gabriele Celesti and Tommaso Tamburino. The sentence is expected next time 12 July.

The procedure was based on the investigations of the Carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania and, according to what has been reconstructed by the investigators, the woman would have killed the little girl in the place of discovery, a abandoned field close to home and then he would have faked the kidnapping of the little girl upon leaving kindergarten.

Martina Patti on the morning of the murder of Elena Del Pozzo (photo Quarto Grado)

Martina Patti confessed to the crime, but did not explain the crime motive. The evening before she was killed the little girl had slept with her grandparents, the next morning her aunt had accompanied her to her nursery and her mother had gone to pick her up and returned home to Mascalucia.

Subsequently Martina Patti went out again in the car, to create a diversion, and then returned to the house. It’s in that time frame that she would have been clerk The crimein an abandoned lot where the mother buried the little body, hidden in five black plastic bags and half buried with a shovel and a pickaxe.

Martina Patti’s car

At that point the 25-year-old had triggered the staging, she had warned by telephone of the false seizure Elena’s parents and father, her ex-partner Alexander Of the Wellhad returned home and afterwards, accompanied by her mother and father, had gone to the Carabinieri to report the kidnapping.

Alessandro Del Pozzo together with his daughter Elena

In front of the Carabinieri, he had associated the kidnapping with some threats which in 2021 the ex-partner had found in front of the house gate, 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.