Innocent Oseghale, a
29-year-old Nigerian accused of murdering Pamela Mastropietro in
Macerata in January, admitted to a cellmate who is a police
informant that he killed her before chopping her up, judicial
sources said Tuesday.
Oseghale denied the claim when the informant's testimony was
read out to him.
He again admitted to chopping up the 18-year-old Roman
woman's body but not to her homicide, sources said.
Mastropietro's dismembered body was found in two suitcases
outside Pollenza near Macerata.
Oseghale is accused of rape, homicide and trying to hide a
body and contempt for a human corpse.
He said they had consensual sex.
During questioning in English with investigators at Marino
del Tronto jail, Oseghale said Mastropietro died of a drugs
overdose at his home and he cut up her body as part of an
attempt to get rid of it.
Oseghale also denied raping Mastropietro and cleared his
compatriot Desmond Lucky, saying he was alone with the woman
when she died.
A few days after Mastropietro's body was found, a far-right
activist, Luca Traini, shot and injured six Nigerians in
Macerata.
A former local candidate of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic
League party, Traini is being held for multiple attempted murder
aggravated by racial hatred.
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