Claudio Dettori , the 24-year-old from Sassari sentenced to life imprisonment in the first instance for having killed the 47-year-old bartender Antonio Fara with a hammer in April 2021 , refused today to appear by videoconference at the hearing in the Court of Appeal in Sassari , thus postponing the appointment of the psychiatrist Paolo Milia as expert of the Court to carry out an expert report on the accused aimed at ascertaining whether he is capable of understanding and wanting.
Given that Dettori is being held in the Uta prison , the Court had ordered the videoconference connection from the penitentiary institute for this morning, thus avoiding being accompanied to Sassari for a hearing that would last a few minutes.
Defended by the lawyer Giuseppe Onorato, the defendant did not take the judges' choice well and preferred not to appear in the videoconferencing room.
The Court, presided over by judge Salvatore Marinaro, therefore postponed the hearing and the consequent appointment of the expert to 22 May. On the same day, the psychiatrist in charge will begin the assessment of Dettori with a first session that will take place in the Sassari prison of Bancali. Then you will have 30 days to submit your report to the Court. Report that will be discussed in the classroom on 26 June.
The reconstruction
At the time of the murder, Dettori, homeless, had been a guest of Fara for about 2 months . On April 22, 2021, the bartender was found dead at home, killed with a hammer. From the first moment the suspicions fell on the defendant. Before escaping, the young man had called the police to report a possible murder in the apartment . He was tracked down and arrested late in the evening in a garden on the outskirts of Sassari.
In a spontaneous statement made in one of the previous hearings, Dettori contested the testimonies and scientific reports that blame him , and above all the images from the video surveillance cameras in the area that had filmed him as he entered and left the apartment at times compatible with the crime .
(Unioneonline/vl)
