Man stabs mother to death with scissors

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 28 - A 56-year-old Italian man with a long history of mental issues stabbed his 84-year-old mother to death with a pair of scissors in their Marche home on Sunday, local sources said Monday.
    The man, Michele Quadraroli, and his mother, Maria Bianchi, had a tobacconist's shop in the town of San Severino Marche near Macerata, where they were very well known.
    Quadraroli tried to burn Bianchi's body after killing her, police said.
    The man, who has been arrested, has been in treatment for psychiatric problems for some time, local sources said.
    The apartment where the alleged crime took place was in Via Raffaello, the same street as the local Carabinieri barracks.
    (ANSA).