"The Court believes that the achievement of a financial or patrimonial objective closely connected to the newly established romantic relationship is not a motive so manifestly disproportionate and abnormal with respect to the crime committed as to be a mere pretext for giving vent to an occasional criminal impulse." With this reasoning, which is stated in the ruling filed yesterday, the Cagliari Assize Court explained why, despite sentencing Igor Sollai to life in prison for the aggravated murder of his wife, Francesca Deidda, it found the "futile and abject motives" requested by Public Prosecutor Marco Cocco to be unfounded.

The reasons

Explaining the reasons for the life sentence with daytime solitary confinement handed down to the 45-year-old truck driver from San Sperate, convicted of killing his 43-year-old wife on May 10, 2024, with a series of hammer blows to the head, the Court presided over by Lucia Perra (with Roberto Cau acting as judge) reiterated that "Igor Sollai never expressed any real regret for the very serious crimes he committed, but always appeared coldly determined, both before and after his imprisonment, to act exclusively with a view to ensuring he had a chance to limit the consequences of the very serious crime he committed." After the crime, the truck driver had thrown the woman's body in a duffel bag in the woods of San Priamo, keeping her phone to text family and friends and suggest she had voluntarily left the area. Within a few weeks, however, the Carabinieri and the Prosecutor's Office had discovered the murder. Andrea Deidda, a civil party in the trial with his lawyer Gianfranco Piscitelli, had asked for justice for his sister.

Economic motive