Starting this morning, before the Court of Assizes of Cagliari, the trial of Igor Sollai, 43, accused of the aggravated femicide of his wife Francesca Deidda, the forty-two-year-old killed in her home in San Sperate last May. After the green light for immediate trial ordered by the investigating judge of the Court, Ermengarda Ferrarese, the public prosecutor Marco Cocco who led the investigation is ready to handle the accusation against the truck driver who, given the extent of the charges, risks a life sentence .
Last November 22, after months of saying that his wife had voluntarily left home, the forty-three-year-old – defended by lawyers Carlo Demurtas and Laura Pirarba – only broke down and decided to confess to the crime when the Carabinieri and the Prosecutor's Office had collected a mountain of serious evidence against him . Francesca Deidda disappeared into thin air on May 10 last year and her remains were found on July 18 by the Carabinieri in a duffel bag in the countryside between Sinnai and San Vito, on the edge of the old state road 125, following the GPS tracks of the van that Sollai used for work . The prosecutor Cocco believes that the woman was killed with a series of hammer blows, and then abandoned near the Roman bridge, along the old Orientale Sarda.
During the investigation, the Carabinieri, with the help of the RIS, discovered that the man had replaced the foam rubber of the sofa where his wife was killed, sold the cars, bought the bag used to transport the body a few hours before the murder, bought plants with his debit card and then used them to try to hide the body (the vases with the barcodes had been found a few dozen meters from the body). For weeks, after the disappearance, he had also used his wife's phone to send messages to friends and colleagues, so that they would believe she was alive and he had also filled out the resignation form from work electronically. It was the colleagues, suspicious of the answers, who raised the alarm. After the confession, Igor Sollai indicated the stretch of sea where he had thrown the hammer used in the murder and the cell phone, but they were not found .
Today, therefore, the trial begins in the Court of Assizes: the charge is that of murder aggravated by premeditation and by futile and abject motives (in the motive the Prosecutor suspects also wanted to collect the 100,000 euro premium of a life insurance policy). The brother of the victim will join the civil action with the lawyer Gianfranco Piscitelli.