(ANSA) – ROME, JUL 29 – With “logically impeccable” arguments, the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Turin ruled that Caleb Merlo – the 42-year-old originally from Cameroon adopted in 2004 by Paola Merlo, killed by him in Vercelli on 10 July 2018 – he shot his adoptive mother to death in a context of “strong tensions in the parental relationship” caused by the “debauched behavior” of the accused, ludopathic, debt-ridden and unemployed, after the woman had told him to find a job because she could no longer hold it.
This was underlined by the Supreme Court in the reasons for the verdict 30215 filed today and relating to the hearing that last April 21 confirmed the life sentence for Caleb, inflicted on him on appeal on April 23, 2021, with the aggravating circumstance of premeditation and the “shameful causal “. In reconstructing the motive for the murder, the ‘stoats’ recall the testimony of MC, a friend of the victim, who had highlighted “the many difficulties encountered by Paola Merlo in the relationship with her adopted son, especially in the months preceding the woman’s death” that “she had confided that she regretted the adoption and that she had given her son an ultimatum, so that he could find a job, since she could no longer keep it”. “It was also proven that the accused was a ludopathic subject, in constant search of money which – underlines the verdict -, after the restrictions imposed by his mother, was asking for a loan from relatives and friends, begging them to keep the woman silent about the circumstance”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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