Piano di Sorrento, the murderous fishmonger wanted to commit suicide

Murderous fishmonger Salvatore Ferraiuolo has admitted everything. He admitted to the murder of his ex-girlfriend Anna Scala, and to the two previous assaults. He admitted to the threats. He also admitted to drug use, but also explained that he had considered suicide when he fled to the Colli di Fontanella hills, where he was captured by the Sorrento Carabinieri.

A preliminary hearing was held this morning before the investigating judge Anzalone of the Court of Torre Annunziate and in the presence of his lawyer, Gabriele Cimmino. The murderer appeared “Very tried” indeed judicial sources even speak of “a halved person”. A man in difficulty in short who realized, certainly late, what he had done.

Instead, the Torre Annunziata Prosecutor's Office explains this in the arrest warrant issued against the self-confessed murderer, which also highlights that the suspect is also capable of committing other crimes against the person.

The murder of Anna Scala, the woman stabbed to death by 54-year-old Salvatore Ferraiuolo and found lifeless in the trunk of a car in Piano di Sorrento last Thursday, August 17, was carried out with “unheard-of ferocity” and “in contempt of the sentimental relationship that bound the victim and the suspect”..

Armed with a knife, Ferraiuolo waited for over an hour for his ex to kill her. And this detail is the basis of the aggravating circumstance of premeditation contested by the investigators to the man, born in Piano di Sorrento but resident in Sant'Agnello.

The deputy prosecutor of Torre Annunziata Federico Nesso and the prosecutor Nunzio Fragliasso contest the murder aggravated by premeditation, injuries and possession of a cutting weapon and concealment of a corpse. Then there are the mistreatments.

The murder, it emerges from the provision, had important precursory signs: Anna had suffered two attacks in two days, between July 24 and 25, with punches and slaps received at a friend's house and on the beach.

“Go and take down the complaint… when I get back I’ll kill you…”

And, in addition, the damage, always at the hands of the ex to her Citroen C3 (where she was later found lifeless) and the death threats – “go and take down the complaint… when I get back I'll kill you…” – to force her to withdraw the charges against him, accompanied by the accusation of treason.

In the decree, the prosecutors underline the existence of the risk of escape and also important testimonies: those given by the friend at whose house the victim was on July 24 when Ferraiuolo beat her, and the statements of the Carabinieri of Massa Lubrense and of a second lieutenant of the local police.

Then there are also the testimonies of those who saw the killer - dressed in black and with a knife in his hand - flee on foot from the garage where the victim's car was with her body in the trunk. And also the images from the municipal video surveillance system that filmed Ferraiuolo while he was fleeing on a scooter.

To the prosecutor who questioned him after his capture, Ferraiuolo confessed to having procured the knife and to having waited for Anna Scala for over an hour before killing her.