Overview

• The Corte d’Assise di Cagliari imposed life imprisonment with one year of daytime isolation on 43-year-old Igor Sollai for the aggravated murder of his wife
• Judges upheld the aggravating factors of premeditation, cruelty and diminished defense while rejecting a trivial motive
• Investigators discovered a hidden GPS unit in Sollai’s work vehicle that led them to Francesca Deidda’s remains two days after her disappearance
• Digital analysis revealed online searches by Sollai on hiding a body, digging a grave and the effects of a violent blow to the head
• The court ordered Sollai to pay a provisional €100,000 to Andrea Sollai, with full civil damages to be determined in subsequent proceedings