An elderly man was brutally killed in his home in the center of Ghilarza. A violent assault, a robbery that ended badly or perhaps a revenge. The victim, 78-year-old Tonino Porcu, had a swollen face, the house was a lake of blood.
A scene, the one faced by the investigators, which leaves no room for doubt. No trace of the thugs.
The victim was retired after being a breeder, and was well known in the village. He was not married, he lived alone in a stone building in a dead end street, via Regina Margherita, a stone's throw from the “Delogu” hospital.
Yesterday the lady who helped him with cleaning and housework hadn't heard from him all day, and at some point in the evening she started to worry. It never happened that Tonino did not answer for a long time. So after the umpteenth empty call she went to look for him, when she arrived in front of the house last night, she went through the gray door and realized that something was wrong.
He notified a nephew of the victim who lives nearby. The man rushed to the scene and found Porcu on his bed, lifeless, with his face slaughtered and covered in blood. Beaten to death, with the house upside down.
The men of the forensics immediately arrived on the spot with the coroner Roberto Demontis and the prosecutor Marco De Crescenzo. On the ground they found long hair. For the moment, hypotheses are not excluded, the most likely is that of a robbery that ended badly, with the pensioner who reacted or even recognized the people (or the person) who had entered the house. A settling of scores is also possible, the man in the past lived in another house that was set on fire.
(Unioneonline)
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