«I suffered a lot for what happened, but I forgave Alberto. I lost my husband, I don't want to lose my son too."
Maria Giovanna Drago, 69 years old, speaks from the witness stand in the courtroom of the Court of Assizes of Sassari at the murder trial against her son Alberto Picci, 50 years old, accused of killing his father, Giuseppe Picci.
At dawn on 27 April 2022, in Santa Maria Coghinas, the accused brought his parents to the point of dying by attacking them in their sleep : the father was pierced with a spear that went through his throat and stuck in his skull, the mother was hit on the head with fishing scissors. Picci has already been definitively sentenced to 12 years in prison for double attempted murder. The father, however, died after about a year of desperate treatment and the 50-year-old was charged with murder.
Today, before the Court of Assizes presided over by Judge Massimo Zaniboni, the five witnesses called to testify by the deputy prosecutor, Angelo Beccu, were heard : three neighbours, an aunt of the accused and his mother, Maria Giovanna Drago. «I suffer from insomnia and therefore I fall asleep with headphones on, listening to relaxing music. I didn't notice anything, I remember feeling a very strong pain in my head, I got up and in the living room I saw my husband lying on the floor, bleeding. Alberto was next to him and told him not to worry, that he had called the ambulance. So I called the police," the woman said.
Also answering questions from the defense lawyer, Claudio Mastandrea, the woman reported the mental disorders of her son , who had suffered Tsos in the past and who suffered from paranoia: "He was afraid, he was convinced that some entity wanted to harm him" .
Next hearing on July 9th to hear the depositions of the experts.
(Unioneonline/D)