He killed his daughter and feigned kidnapping: legal, I think there will be a trial

"I think there will be an indictment."

This was stated by the lawyer Gabriele Celesti at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing on the request of the Catania Public Prosecutor's Office to try Martina Patti, the 24-year-old who confesses to the murder of her daughter Elena, not even 5 years old, killed with a knife in June 2022 and buried in a field near the house, in Mascalucia.

The alleged crimes are aggravated premeditated homicide, concealment of a corpse and felony simulation.

The investigating judge Stefano Montoneri withdrew for the decision.

The woman, who allegedly killed the little girl in the place where she was found, feigned kidnapping the little girl when she left the kindergarten.

Martina Patti confessed to the crime, but she did not explain the motive.

One of the tracks beaten by the carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania who investigated was jealousy towards Elena's ex-partner and father, Alessandro Del Pozzo, 24 years old.

The 'spark' may have been the evening Elena spent with her paternal grandparents and her happiness shown by her little girl in seeing her father's new partner.

The night before she was killed, the little girl slept with her grandparents.

The next morning her aunt took her to kindergarten and her mother went to pick her up and returned home to Mascalucia.

Then Martina Patti went out again with the car,

to create a diversion and returns to the dwelling.

It is in that period of time that the crime would have been committed, in an abandoned lot where the mother buried the little body, hidden in five black plastic bags and half buried with a shovel and a pickaxe.

Then she triggered the staging: she warned Elena's parents and father by telephone of the false kidnapping, returned home and immediately afterwards, accompanied by her mother and father, went to the carabinieri to report the incident .

To the military he associated the kidnapping with some threats that in 2021 the ex-partner had found in front of the gate of the house for a robbery for which Del Pozzo was arrested in 2020 and then acquitted for not having committed the crime.

but his version did not stand up to the findings and investigations of the carabinieri and the disputes raised by the Catania prosecutor's office.

(HANDLE).