A Nigerian national charged
with murdering Pamela Mastropietro, an 18-year-old whose
dismembered body was found Wednesday in two suitcases dumped in
the countryside outside Pollenza near Macerata in Marche, is
also accused of the crime of contempt for the human body,
sources said Friday.
Carabinieri police have found several large knives at the
Macerata home of the suspect, Innocent Oseghale, 29, sources
said.
Police forensic experts also found blood stains in many parts
of the apartment, sources said.
A prosecutor will request that Oseghale remains in jail on
Friday in relation to a case that has shocked the nation.
Oseghale appeared "confused and not very clear" during
questioning in which he denied the charges Thursday, judicial
sources said.
Oseghale tried to accuse two other people who police have
cleared, the sources said.
The woman had voluntarily left a drug rehab centre at nearby
Corridonia on January 29.
Oseghale has a record for drugs offences, police said.
He was pinned down by CCTV footage of the area where the
suitcases were dumped, and by a foreign national who said he saw
him carrying the suitcases there.
Mastropietro is believed to have been killed on the morning
of January 30, police said.
The Pars drug rehab community from which she fled said
Thursday the case highlighted "a tragic underestimation of the
drug problem in our country".
The Corridonia centre said drug legislation in Italy was
"inadequate".
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