"Igor Sollai must remain in prison". The Attorney General of the Court of Cassation in Rome is convinced that the decision of the Review Court of Cagliari to deny house arrest to the 43-year-old truck driver from Assemini, in prison in Uta since last July 8, accused of killing his wife Francesca Deidda, a 42-year-old from Elmas, a call center operator, in their home in San Sperate, is correct.
The hearing
Yesterday, before the Supreme Court, Sollai's defense lawyers reiterated their request to review the decision of the Review Court of Cagliari. According to lawyers Carlo Demurtas and Laura Pirarba, there is no danger of the suspect fleeing, nor of the crime being repeated, nor of evidence being tampered with. "It is true," the two lawyers told the judges of the Supreme Court, "that Igor Sollai had sent sums of money in several installments to his brother who emigrated to Holland, but not to prepare for an escape: these are small loans and money received from the sale of objects online to be divided between the two. There is no danger of the crime being repeated, nor of evidence being tampered with: all the elements necessary for the investigation have already been acquired by the Prosecutor's Office."
The Court of Review of Cagliari had a different opinion, which had also emphasized the serious evidence of guilt of Igor Sollai. The truck driver has always declared himself innocent, from the day of his arrest, which occurred on July 8th, until today, while the evidence against him continued to line up on the investigators' table.
The investigation
There had been no news of Francesca Deidda since May 10. Her colleagues reported her absence from work to her brother Andrea, who filed a missing persons report on May 31. The woman's lifeless body was found along the old Orientale, in Sa Picocca, on July 18. The autopsy explained that she was killed in her sleep on the sofa at home with several blows to the head from a blunt object. The prosecutor Marco Cocco was convinced of Igor Sollai's guilt by examining the satellite navigation tracks of the cars he used, often present in Sa Picocca; by checking the cell phones and computers at his disposal; by the motive (he had another woman and could cash in on a life insurance policy signed together with his wife); by the purchase of some plants found near his wife's lifeless body which, if grown, could have hidden the body forever; by the unconvincing positions supported during the preliminary interrogations.
