The paternal grandfather of
murdered eight-year-old Loris Stival will be questioned by
prosecutors on Thursday, sources said Tuesday.
Andrea Stival was placed under investigation as an
accessory to the murder and concealment of the body in February.
Prosecutors said proceedings against Andrea Stival are a
matter of course after the boy's mother Veronica Panarello,
currently the only defendant in the murder, told a psychologist
Loris was killed by her father-in-law and that they were
lovers.
Panarello has alleged Andrea Stival feared his grandson
might reveal the affair.
The man has denied both his daughter-in-law's claims.
Panarello, 27, is on trial for premeditated murder and
concealing a corpse in connection with the death of Loris at his
home in the Sicilian town of Santa Croce Camerina on November
29, 2014.
Prosecution documents seen by ANSA at the time of her
arrest the following December alleged she killed the boy "via
strangulation with a plastic cable tie", and named cruelty as an
aggravating circumstance.
Panarello later told investigators her son died by accident
while playing with a plastic cable tie and that she threw his
body in a ravine in a moment of panic.
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