Igor Sollai remains in prison. This morning, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal presented by lawyers Carlo Demurtas and Laura Pirarba, who had presented a request for review of the decision of the Review Court of Cagliari, where house arrest had been denied to the truck driver from Assemini, in prison since last July 8 on charges of having killed his wife Francesca Deidda.
The reasons are awaited from the Supreme Court . On Friday, before the Supreme Court, Sollai's defense lawyers had requested house arrest for the forty-three-year-old, pointing out that there was no risk of the suspect fleeing, nor of repeating the crime or tampering with evidence. "All the elements necessary for the investigation have already been acquired by the Prosecutor's Office," they had told the judges of the Supreme Court. "It is true that Sollai had sent sums of money in several installments to his brother who emigrated to Holland, but not to prepare for his escape: these are small loans and money earned from the sale of objects online, to be divided between the two."
Sollai, who has always maintained his innocence, has been in prison for just over four months. It was July 8, ten days before the discovery of Francesca Deidda's lifeless body, which occurred in Sa Picocca along the old Orientale Sarda . The autopsy revealed that she was killed in her sleep, on the sofa in her home in San Sperate, with several blows to the head with a blunt object. The prosecutor Marco Cocco was convinced of Sollai's guilt based on the satellite navigation tracks of the vehicles used by the hauler, which often stopped in Sa Picocca, as well as by checks of phones and computers, by the purchase of some plants found near the body, by the unconvincing positions during the preliminary interrogations and by the motive (he had another woman and could have pocketed the life insurance - worth around 100,000 euros - signed together with his wife).
(Unioneonline/r.sp.)