Life imprisonment plus one year of daytime isolation: this is the sentence requested at the end of a long closing speech by prosecutor Marco Cocco against Igor Sollai, accused of killing his wife Francesca Deidda. "He also lied in his confession: what worse could Sollai do? No discount," the magistrate emphasized. "Not a real confession but statements only useful for obtaining a lesser sentence," the prosecutor's office clarified, "a behavior that denotes no sense of guilt." And again: "I counted seventeen topics on which Sollai lied," added Cocco, according to whom the defendant "devised a precise criminal plan: the preparation, the commission, the staging and the tampering with evidence."
The conduct of the hearing
The long closing argument opened this morning before the Assize Court of Cagliari, in the trial of Igor Sollai, 43, accused of the aggravated femicide of his wife Francesca Deidda, the 42-year-old killed in her home in San Sperate last May.
The public prosecutor Marco Cocco had begun by reconstructing with meticulous attention to detail, the life of the woman killed by her husband and the investigations that led to her arrest . "The proceedings' documents number 5,000 pages," the prosecutor began, "but the story that this trial tells is a simple story. The story of Francesca's simple life and death, and it was reconstructed despite Igor Sollai's misdirection."
The public prosecutor spoke for several hours, then the floor – on May 28 – will pass to the civil parties and the defense attorneys Carlo Demurtas and Laura Pirarba. The sentence is also expected on that date.
The prosecution alleges a large number of aggravating circumstances: death of the spouse, frivolous and abject motives, premeditation, cruelty.
