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Rome.- Two Italian brothers have confessed to the murder of their father, whose body was found wrapped in cellophane in a chest, because he refused to give them his widow's pension that he received for their deceased mother, local media report.
Michele Di Gennaro, 42, a biomedical engineer, and his brother Andrea, 34, a personal trainer, planned the murder of their father, Antonio, 72, to whom they administered a sleeping pill in his coffee and then suffocated him with a pillow, according to the Carabinieri of Naples (southern Italy).The two brothers, who had never had any problems with the law, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated voluntary manslaughter.
The father's body was found on the terrace of a house that the parent had in Quarto, on the outskirts of Naples (south), where he had moved with his new partner, who reported the victim's disappearance to the police.
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The woman told the police that the two brothers had assured her that their father had abandoned her for another woman and had gone to England, but she didn't believe them, stating that just a few days before they had bought clothes together to go to a friend's wedding.
The brothers confirmed the woman's account, but when investigators informed them that they were going to search the father's house in Quarto, they broke down and confessed to the murder.
