A 47-year-old man was arrested near
Naples Thursday for allegedly kicking to death his 52-year-old
partner during the COVID lockdown.
Lucia Caiazza died in a hospital at Frattamaggiore near Naples
on May 14 after being admitted with severe abdominal pains two
days earlier.
Her injuries were initially attributed to a car crash that
happened a month earlier, on April 11, while she was driving
with her sister.
Her family doctor thought she may have had kidney stones, on the
other hand.
But an autopsy showed she died of a traumatic laceration of the
spleen, allegedly caused by her partner's kicks.
Police said they reconstructed what really happened by listening
to phone intercepts and questioning witnesses who said the man
had treated her violently.
Carabinieri from Casavatore near Naples have arrested the man on
suspicion of manslaughter.
He has not been named.
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