He stabbed his wife in their Quartucciu home at the height of a violent quarrel.

Paolo Randaccio , a 69-year-old retiree, confessed to the murder, will appear on 5 October in the Court of Assizes in Cagliari.

In fact, the gup Ermengarda Ferrarese accepted the request for indictment for voluntary murder made by the deputy prosecutor Nicola Giua Marassi, owner of the file.

According to the autopsy Angelica Salis , 60, had been hit in the kitchen with six stab wounds to the chest and throat , the latter fatal. Randaccio just a few minutes after the crime called the carabinieri to tell what happened: "I'll wait for you at home", he told the military.

And there the carabinieri found him, he was still holding the weapon used to kill his wife.

Questioned a few days later the man - defended by the lawyer Andrea Nanni - had admitted his responsibilities, claiming that he was attacked by his wife and therefore reacted.

He has been in a cell in the Uta prison for a year, the murder took place last September. Now he will have to face the process in Assize.

(Unioneonline / L)