An Italian woman who hired two assassins to murder her overbearing father was arrested after the second hitman changed his mind and confessed to the police.
Nineteen-year-old Ilenia Moretti had asked her father Rodolfo for 5,000 euros (Sh520,000) for a trip to America before using the money to hire a hitman to kill him, apparently with her mother’s consent, a police statement said yesterday.
The teenager, from the small town of Luzzara near Milan, told authorities she could no longer bear her despotic father’s ways.
The hitman pocketed the money before going to the police. His confession led police to re-examine details of a previous attack on Rodolfo Moretti, a 42-year-old porter.
In January, Ilenia and 26-year-old accomplice Davide Giorgi recruited Alex Grantana from the nearby town of Mantova to murder Rodolfo. Giorgi has also been detained.
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Grantana cycled 30 km from Mantova to Luzzara in the middle of the night to wait in the shadows outside the Moretti home for Rodolfo to appear. The victim was on his way to work at 1.30 am when Grantana leaped out and stabbed him in the back.
But Rodolfo overpowered his aggressor and restrained him until the police arrived. When asked why he had attacked Rodolfo, Grantana said he just didn’t like him, an explanation that baffled police as the two men had never seen each other before.
— Reuters Life!
