A 53-year-old man turned himself in
to Carabinieri police in the Sicilian town of Caltagirone on
Monday and confessed to killing his 47-year-old partner,
Patrizia Formica, while she slept in their bed, sources said on
Monday.
Salvatore Pirronello, 53, stabbed the woman four times.
The motive for the killing is not yet known.
It is the latest in a spate of recent 'femicide' cases of
women being killed, usually by their partners or ex-partners.
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