(ANSA) - Ascoli Piceno, March 16 - A prime suspect in the
murder and dismemberment of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro told
his lawyers Thursday night that he had left her alive in his
flat with another suspect and gone back to find her in the two
suitcases in which she was later dumped.
"I went out to sell marijuana to someone who had called me, I
left the girl alive at home, with Desmond (Lucky); when I got
home three or four hours later I found her in the suitcases,"
said Innocent Oseghale, one of four Nigerians suspected in the
case.
Quizzed by police about drugs believed to have been in the
flat later Friday, Oseghale said "the heroin wasn't mine, and I
didn't have it in the house".
Three have been arrested, including Oseghale, Lucky and Lucky
Awelima, and a fourth has been placed under investigation but
not arrested.
The woman's body was discovered near Macerata in the Marche
region on January 31.
She is believed to have been stabbed to death and dismembered
the previous day.
Pamela suspect says found her in suitcases (3)
'Left her with Lucky' says Oseghale