Mirko, killed to defend his mother in Tortolì, now the killer writes from his cell: "I apologize"

«Dear Paola…»: this is not the incipit of a message to a friend, but the first words of the letter addressed to a woman who risked being stabbed to death. And to write it is the man who, for two years, has been in prison on charges of having tried to kill her with 17 blows. But Shahid Masih , who will turn 31 on May 22, is also the murderer of Mirko Farci, the twenty-year-old son of his ex-partner Paola Piras, whose death is the second anniversary today. In Uta prison, the former Pakistani coachbuilder dictated his thoughts to his lawyer, Federico Delitala. At the bottom is the signature of the former partner of the 53-year-old from Tortolì. To whom he asked for forgiveness for having killed her son, reiterating a concept already expressed during the trial, and in addition he did so towards the community of Tortolì and all the people to whom Mirko's death will bring pain for life.

Shahid Masih sent a few lines from his cell asking for "forgiveness for what I did". As he told the judges of the Court of Assizes of Cagliari, on May 11, 2021 he did not want to kill Mirko: he had shown up in the apartment in via Monsignor Virgilio for a clarification with her. “I thought you were cheating on me,” he wrote on the white sheet delivered to his ex. He has once again dismissed the accusation of premeditation, although he is aware that he has committed a thrilling crime.

Life imprisonment is the sentence that the President of the Court of Assizes, Giovanni Massidda, inflicted on Shahid Masih on 15 February. The sentence is the foundation stone of a justice awaited and invoked by the family members of the boy who died stabbed to save his mother. At the end of the deliberation session, which had lasted just over two and a half hours, the judges considered that the defendant had committed a premeditated murder, but they dropped the aggravating circumstance of the ill-treatment which had been contested by the public prosecutor of Lanusei, Giovanna Morra. The trusted criminal lawyer, Delitala, announces the appeal of the sentence: "We dispute the premeditation". Meanwhile Paola Piras has changed her life. She packed her bags and moved to Lombardy to be close to her other two children.

Robert Secci