Pensioner Giovanni Secci, 81, was transferred last night to Uta prison on charges of murder. He is accused of killing his wife Mariolina Seguri, his peer, by suffocating her with a pillow in the bedroom of their home on Via Boezio, in Monserrato.
Yesterday, the pensioner remained silent, refusing to answer the magistrate's questions at the Monserrato barracks, where he had arrived with the Carabinieri station a few minutes after the crime. Judge Enrico Lussu, who is leading the investigation, will question him on Monday at the validation hearing .
Also on Monday, the Brotzu Institute of Forensic Medicine will conduct a post-mortem examination on the victim's body. The magistrate has assigned the task to coroner Roberto Demontis, who was present yesterday with the magistrate and investigators at the victim's home inspection.
The woman, after being cared for by her son, was in bed: there she was joined by her husband who suffocated her .
Immediately afterward , the desperate man reportedly called his son and then the Carabinieri . A patrol from the Monserrato station, coordinated by Lieutenant Pier Paolo Sabiu, made the gruesome discovery. The officers immediately apprehended the murderer and took him to the barracks. The investigation, coordinated by Lieutenant Colonel Francesco Donvito, Captain Gianmarco Daidone, and Lieutenants Vittorio Piras and Pier Paolo Sabiu, continued until late yesterday evening, when the pensioner was transferred to Uta prison.