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18-year-old Nigerian teenager was arrested in southern Italy on suspicion of
murdering a 60-year-old Catherine Susca outside the coastal city of Bari.
The old woman was found semi-naked with a plastic
bag over her head and her skull crushed in her apartment in Torre a Mare.
According to investigations, the death of Catherine
Susca was caused by the beating she received in the course of the attack,
suffocation with a plastic bag dropped on her head and strangulation with a
scarf.
The Nigerian boy, Donald Nwajiobi, who lives in
Bari but homeless, confessed he killed the woman in self-defense after she
attacked him with a pair of scissors and he also claimed to have acted alone.
However, investigators will verify whether there
were accomplices.
Donald said he had met the victim at Torre a Mare
on the morning of the incident and asked her for food; the lady who was in the
car asked him to follow her home with a promise to give him something to eat.
The police think once in the house, Donald tried to
steal from the woman and was caught in the act, which would have led the 60 year
old woman into trying to chase him out of her house with a pair of scissors.
Donald attacked and suffocated the woman with a
plastic bag after beating her up.
Some money was stolen from the deceased plus a
mobile phone with which he was tracked down by the police.
Donald was remanded in prison after the judge,
Sergio Di Paola, ruled that he could be dangerous to free him on bail for he
could kill again and probably flee.
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