He was accused of the attempted murder of his father, which occurred at the height of an argument, when he held a knife to his throat, threatened him and then repeatedly hit him on the head with a chair, before fleeing.

But the GUP of the Nuoro court Mauro Pusceddu has requalified the charge of attempted murder brought against Antonio Melis, a 36-year-old resident of Oliena and defended by the lawyer Francesco Lai, to serious injuries, sentencing him in the abbreviated trial to 4 years of imprisonment.

The attack on the father, Pasquale Melis, a 67-year-old retired carabiniere, occurred during the night between February 1st and 2nd in Torpè, at the height of a family argument.

The father had been rushed to the San Francesco hospital in Nuoro, suffering serious injuries. For Antonio Melis, the public prosecutor Riccardo Belfiori, had requested a 10-year prison sentence for attempted murder and the recognition of the aggravating circumstance of parental ties, emphasizing that the medical examiner's report had highlighted the danger of the injuries for the father's life.

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