"The murder was a real ambush". Giampaolo Murrighile, civil party lawyer in the ongoing trial in the Assize Court in Sassari , against Davide Iannelli , the 49-year-old accused of killing his neighbor, Toni Cozzolino , 49, burned alive on the street in Olbia on March 11, 2022 and died in hospital after ten days of agony , has no doubts.
During his conclusions delivered today before the Court presided over by Judge Massimo Zaniboni, the lawyer , together with his colleagues Antonio Fois and Massimo Perra, urged the jury to sentence the defendant to life imprisonment - the same sentence requested in the last hearing by the Tempio prosecutor Gregorio Capasso - and to recognize the aggravating circumstance of premeditation in addition to that of cruelty.
«That morning - Murrighile underlined - Iannelli had planned and organized the murder of Cozzolino, he waited for him and ambushed him, to kill him ».
In their presentation of their arguments, the civil lawyers focused on the description of the two videos in the case file, which filmed the scene of the attack. Descriptions contested by the defense lawyers, Cristina Cherchi and Abele Cherchi, who have asked for the next hearing on October 22, when they will have the floor, to be able to rebroadcast those images in court, and also to listen again to the phone call that Iannelli made to 113 the evening before the murder.
(Unioneonline/vl)
