Man stabs wrong man in 'vendetta' over handicapped son

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 17 - A 50-year-old farmer on Sunday stabbed a 54-year-old farmer in Puglia in a mistaken vendetta for a lab test the man thought had caused his son to be mentally handicapped.
    The child was born with an intellectual disability which the aggressor took to be the result of an amniocentesis performed on his mother while pregnant.
    The man spent 10 years looking for the nurse who had carried out the test - regularly used for the prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities and fetal infections - and believed he had tracked him down to Canosa di Puglia.
    He believed the nurse had left the hospital in Trani and now become a farmer.
    But he got the wrong man, and stabbed the innocent farmer who has had a delicate operation because one of the stab wounds perforated a lung.
    The farmer who stabbed the man is now in custody on charges f attempted murder.
    When he inflicted the two stand wounds on the farmer's chest and abdomen, the other farmer shouted "this is for my son". (ANSA).