Twelve years of imprisonment, as requested by the accusation he had requested - after the ruling of the Constitutional Court - a sentence with the mitigating factors prevailing over the aggravating ones. This is the sentence pronounced by the Court of Assizes of Cagliari against Paolo Randaccio, a 70 year old pensioner, who confessed to the murder of his wife Angelica Salis, 60 years old. The man had stabbed his partner to death in their home in Quartucciu at the height of a violent argument in September 2021.
The person who requested the conviction was the deputy prosecutor Nicola Giua Marassi, holder of the file, who together with the defense had also requested a ruling from the Council on the prohibition, foreseen by the law, of applying mitigating circumstances in cases of murders committed by the victim of family abuse.
Randaccio, it emerged, would have acted in a moment of exasperation caused by the continuous aggressive behavior of the victim, an alcoholic and suffering from psychiatric pathologies. According to the law, the judge should apply the same punishment as in the most brutal cases of murder, therefore life imprisonment or at least twenty-one years of imprisonment.
The question was raised by the defendant's lawyers, Andrea Nanni and Luca Pennisi, and by the prosecutor Nicola Giua Marassi, after the decision of the Constitutional Court , the sentence of the Assize Court of Cagliari, presided over by judge Giovanni Massidda, arrived today. Angelica Salis had been hit in the kitchen with six stab wounds to the chest and throat, the latter lethal . Randaccio himself, a few minutes after the crime, had called the police to tell what had happened: "I'll wait for you at home", he told the soldiers.
Today the sentence that accepts the request for a substantially lenient sentence and which takes into account the mitigating factors. In ninety days the reasons.