The lawyers of Gian Michele Giobbe, the 41-year-old on trial on charges of killing his uncle Esperino on October 17, 2020 in Orotelli, in the company where they both worked, are asking for acquittal for their client.
"The motive and the evidence against him do not hold up," Lorenzo Soro and Mario Pittalis said in the courtroom in Nuoro.
"The streak of blood found on Gian Michele's shoe cannot constitute proof - the lawyers underlined - it was he who found his uncle's body at the crime scene where there were pools of blood and it is there that much probably his shoe got dirty.'
According to the indictment, the motive is linked to the land and the company owned by Esperino but in reality shared with others on the brothers, but the lawyers replied: «Gian Michele Giobbe had no advantage from the murder of his uncle: he was not heir to nothing, the only owner was his uncle who had his wife and daughters as heirs. The dispute over the family land - the defenders clarified - was not between Gian Michele and Esperino but between Esperino and his brothers, only one of whom was alive. That the situation between the defendant and the victim was calm - they added - was also highlighted during the trial: no witness claimed that Gian Michele had ever quarreled with his uncle".
Prosecutor Andrea Ghironi had asked for life imprisonment for the accused.
Another nephew of the victim, a witness in the trial, is also under investigation. For him, the prosecutor requested the transmission of the documents to the prosecutor's office for perjury. Esperino Giobbe's wife and daughters filed a civil action with the lawyers Giuseppe Mocci and Gianfranco Flore. We return to the courtroom on July 17 for any replies and the sentence.
(Unioneonline/ss)