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, authorities said yesterday.
Ilenia Moretti (19) had asked her father Rodolfo for €5,000 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.
The teenager, from the small town of Luzzara near the northern Italian city of Milan, told authorities she could no longer bear her despotic father’s ways.
“She said she wanted to bring to an end years of intimidation suffered by both daughter and mother,” an investigator said in the statement.
The hitman, thought to be a young north African, pocketed the money before going to the police. His confession led police to re-examine details of a previous attack on Rodolfo Moretti (42), a porter.
In January, Ilenia and accomplice Davide Giorgi (26) had recruited Alex Grantana from the nearby town of Mantova to murder Rodolfo. Giorgi has also been detained. The victim was on his way to work at 1.30 am when Grantana leaped out and stabbed him in the back.
Ilenia’s mother, Roberta, is under investigation for her possible role in the attempted murders. – (Reuters)