There is perhaps an epileptic attack, with its consequences, behind the death of Marta Maria Ohryzko, the 33-year-old Ukrainian found lifeless by the police on Sunday morning on a slope in a hilly area of Barano d'Ischia.
The evening before, she had left the caravan where she lived with her partner, the Russian Ilia Batraklov, and had fallen a couple of meters down a slope while walking along an isolated country road, fracturing her ankle.
She had sent repeated requests for help to her partner via message and finally remained alone in the vegetation all night. It was most likely the consequences of an epileptic seizure that caused her death: the woman, without anyone to help her, would have suffered strong regurgitation which would have effectively suffocated her.
Confirmation of this thesis is the lack of signs of recent violence on the body even though the autopsy will certify the official cause of death.
The 33-year-old, according to investigations by the Ischia Carabinieri, had however suffered violence from her partner for at least two years. Batraklov meanwhile remains in prison: for the 41-year-old, who declared that he had looked for Marta during the night and found her still alive but telling her to stay and sleep on the slope, the arrest ordered by the Naples Prosecutor's Office for mistreatment with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act to the detriment of a person with psychiatric problems (Marta was being treated at the island's mental health centre) with cruelty and with fatal results.
(Unioneonline/ss)
