"I put my mother's body in the freezer because when she died I panicked: the 500 euro pension was my only source of income."
This, in extreme synthesis, is what Sandro Mallus, 55 years old from Sarroch, claimed in front of the public prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia who questioned him as part of the investigation for concealment of a corpse and aggravated fraud.
On August 28th of last year, the Carabinieri discovered that the man, after the death of his elderly mother, had hidden her in the freezer to continue collecting his pension for about two years.
This morning, defended by the lawyer Michela Zanda, the 55-year-old was heard by the public prosecutor who is closing the investigation. The investigations of the Prosecutor's Office have shown that there was no violence and that Rosanna Pilloni, 78, died of natural causes. Today the admission and reconstruction of the event by the son.
The man told the magistrate that he had decided to hide the body because his mother's 500 euro pension was the only source of income for both of them.