12 years in prison and three years in a Rems facility with abbreviated judgment. This is the sentence, pronounced in the afternoon by the investigating judge Gian Paolo Piana, against Alberto Picci , accused of the double attempted murder , at the end of April 2022 in Santa Maria Coghinas , of his father Giuseppe and mother Maria Giovanna Drago.
The 48-year-old had hit his parents at dawn , in their home, with a spear and a knife, causing them very serious injuries. The sentence issued by the judge for the preliminary hearings reflects that requested by the prosecutor Angelo Beccu, who, in today's discussion, considered the aggravating circumstances of the impaired defence, cohabitation and futile reasons to be equivalent, with the extenuating circumstances of the partial inability to understand and will and also with the fact that Picci immediately provided a full confession of what happened. The man's lawyer, Tania Decortes, had instead asked for acquittal arguing that the case under discussion is one in which semi-infirmity excludes the will to commit the murder and also arguing the absence of aggravating circumstances.
Picci, present in the courtroom, made some spontaneous statements confirming his responsibilities but also asserting that he did not want to commit the act . Meanwhile, last January, a month after the request for the abbreviation, his father Giuseppe died and the preliminary investigations are currently underway, as well as an expert report, to assess whether the death was caused by the injuries sustained during the attack.
