Rob - banned
03-11-2005, 03:20 PM
An angry husband shot his wife with a rifle built into a pair of crutches as she arrived at court yesterday for a divorce hearing.
Silvio Angelini, 56, dropped to one knee and fired at the 36-year-old twice.
His wife, who has not been named, was hit in the stomach.
She was taken to hospital where she was said to be critically ill last night. As doctors battled to save her life, Angelini was being questioned in custody.
Firearms experts wearing protective body armour were called to the scene of the shooting to remove the black crutches.
They were dropped on the ground outside the court, in Siena, Tuscany, by Angelini.
Investigators said the metal worker had converted the hospital issue crutches into deadly weapons in his workshop.
They added that Angelini was well known to the police.
He was arrested last year after placing a box of gunpowder and bits of metal under his wife's car.
Silvio Angelini, 56, dropped to one knee and fired at the 36-year-old twice.
His wife, who has not been named, was hit in the stomach.
She was taken to hospital where she was said to be critically ill last night. As doctors battled to save her life, Angelini was being questioned in custody.
Firearms experts wearing protective body armour were called to the scene of the shooting to remove the black crutches.
They were dropped on the ground outside the court, in Siena, Tuscany, by Angelini.
Investigators said the metal worker had converted the hospital issue crutches into deadly weapons in his workshop.
They added that Angelini was well known to the police.
He was arrested last year after placing a box of gunpowder and bits of metal under his wife's car.