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Vincenzo Pietropaolo, former treasurer of the Bank of Athens, was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
Vincenzo Pietropaolo, a former treasurer of the Bank of Athens, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his estranged father and wife.
He was sentenced at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Monday.
In sentencing, Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng said: “What is certain is that the defendant has shown no remorse or even a modicum of remorse.
He also said that the accused did not give a statement and added that “being the intelligent person that he was, he played the law to such an extent that he pleaded not guilty.”
The judge said:
I find the accused to be inherently evil. He murders his father, heals the scene, in the sense that he pretends there was a robbery in the house [that] this resulted in the death of his father. This court has already determined that there was no robbery there.
The court found the defendant guilty of the 2017 murder of his estranged wife, Manuela, who was shot nine times at their Brackenhurst home, and his father, Pasqualino, who was killed nine months before Manuela.
Pasqualino’s death was initially believed to have occurred during a botched house robbery.
Pietropaolo was also found guilty of aggravated robbery, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, and violation of the aims of justice.
More to follow.
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