Doctor Alba Veronica Piludu , the 53-year-old from Tertenia sentenced to life imprisonment in the first degree for aggravated voluntary homicide , circumvention of an incompetent person and fraud, was subjected to a psychiatric evaluation . According to the accusation, the professional treated patients suffering from tumors with alternative methodologies - such as ultrasound, radiofrequency and blood revitalizations - which would have reduced the patients' life expectancy and accelerated their death.
The trial in the Court of Assizes of Appeal will depend on the outcome of the examination, requested by the defendant's defense lawyers, Gianluca Aste and Michele Zuddas, and by the attorney general Luigi Patronaggio. If the incapacity of understanding and will were ascertained , in whole or in part, the verdict would change: in the first case there would be acquittal, in the second she could be sentenced to a more lenient sentence. This morning the professional underwent the first of three expert exams scheduled by the Court , the second will be tomorrow and the last on April 9th. In a courtroom made available in the Cagliari courthouse, the accused answered the questions of the psychiatrist Elvezio Pirfo - former expert of Annamaria Franzoni in the Cogne case and more recently in the trial of Alessia Pifferi - and of the party consultants, Paolo Milia for the defense and Diego Primavera for the civil parties.
The outcome of the tests and the subsequent reports will be discussed in the hearing already scheduled for May 24. The families of the victims have joined the civil action with the lawyers Rita Dedola, who represents the widow of the only patient whose death is was attributed to the doctor in the first instance trial, Mauro Massa and Gianfranco Sollai. The investigation began after an investigation by the program Le Iene on 19 November 2017. The doctor had already been subject to disciplinary proceedings by the Nuoro medical association and in May 2018 she had been banned from practicing by the investigating judge. of the medical profession.
