The Court of Appeal of Sassari also confirmed, this afternoon, the sentence of 12 years in prison and three in a Rems for Alberto Picci , the 48-year-old from Cagliari who hit his parents on 28 April 2022 in their home in Santa Maria Coghinas , with a harpoon and a butterfly knife.
An attack that caused them very serious injuries and a long period of coma for both. Among other things, his father Giuseppe died in January a year ago and the Sassari prosecutor's office now intends to proceed against Alberto for the crime of murder.
While in today's case the accusation against the man, defended by the lawyer Tania Decortes, was attempted multi-aggravated murder , a proceeding which had already resulted in a sentence for Picci in April 2023, with the abbreviated procedure, of 12 years of imprisonment plus three years in a Rems structure, Residences for the execution of security measures, aimed at those who suffer from mental disorders and are perpetrators of crimes. The conviction was reiterated by the panel chaired by Salvatore Marinaro, the deputy prosecutor was Angelo Beccu.
