An Italian man has been arrested over the murder of a Nigerian prostitute after police searching her apartment found a short story he wrote with close similarities to the killing.

Police in the northern Italian city of Turin discovered the nine-page story entitled "The Rose and the Lion" among the belongings of Anthonia Egbuna, whose body was fished out of the river Po in February, a Carabinieri spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. She had been stabbed to death.

Police took some months to identify the body and then visited Egbuna's apartment last month.



After finding 34-year-old Ughetto Piampaschet's short story, police say they discovered he had been in a relationship with Egbuna, then 19, between February and August of last year.

They alleged in a statement that he murdered her in November because their relationship was going badly and she refused to give up prostitution - in what appeared to be a link to the short story.

"He loved her and he loved her more every day, but she did not want to leave the streets. All his efforts to convince her to change her life had failed. And for this reason she had become his torturer," reads an excerpt of the story quoted by police.

In the short story, the murderer strangles the Nigerian prostitute and then commits suicide.

"He wrote the story and gave it to her as a gift - to make himself look good," Ughetto Piampaschet's lawyer, Stefano Tizzani, told Reuters.

Tizzani said Ughetto Piampaschet had a "profound passion" for Africa and Nigeria, and saw Egbuna as an inspiration for his writing. "My client has declared his innocence and we are working to demonstrate it," Tizzani said.

Ughetto Piampaschet told investigators after his arrest that his relationship with Egbuna changed after he started dating another Nigerian woman last August, though he remained in contact with her.

His lawyer said his client stopped seeing Egbuna after he was threatened by people who control the Nigerian prostitution business in Turin.

"He stopped calling her after he was threatened and intimidated and told not to see her anymore," said Tizzani.

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Posted: at 22-08-2012 03:45 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

  yeye poster hw u take knw say na edo? nonsense boy

Posted: at 22-08-2012 03:51 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Love..!!!...But why ?

Posted: at 22-08-2012 03:57 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

Intoxicating oyinbo love

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:08 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

I do not endorse or support her lifestyle, but she does not deserve to be killed.

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:10 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 Egbuna is an igbo name!

Google egbuna................igbo kwenu!

Nneka Egbuna

Ijeoma Egbuna

Onyinye Egbuna

Dozie Egbuna

Ifeanyi Egbuna


Lives in Abuja, NigeriaFrom Obosi

Egbuna Ikem

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:13 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

mad love and incomplete story.............they hud write it in italian for better understanding bcos italian translation sucks!!  

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:17 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Ω̴̩̩̩̥α Ψђε̲̣̣̣̥®ε̲̣̣̣̥ U̶̲̥̅̊ tink say she from?? I hail EDOS!!!

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:20 PM (11 years ago) | Newbie

 

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:22 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:22 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

poster why this name ..EDO PROSTITUTE..e better if u say nigeria ashawo..ok wait for Edo people ..them go face u soon ..

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:25 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

any part of 9ja she like let her come from all they know is that she is a Nigerian;Nigerians like to discriminate each other too bad

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:26 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

@ashadestiny (167) why the hate? And please stop displaying your ignorance here ....biatch!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:31 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

any part of 9ja she like let her come from all they know is that she is a Nigerian;Nigerians like to discriminate each other too bad

Tell them! I tire.

One nation, one people

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:32 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

@ashadestiny (167) why the hate? And please stop displaying your ignorance here ....biatch!!!!!!!!!!!!!

igbo kwenu!

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:33 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

Tell them! I tire.

One nation, one people

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Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:36 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:37 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

Tell them! I tire.

One nation, one people

useless fool is that not your write up.. you should be ashamed of yourself for been an elder as u claim yet living without your brain.. as elderly as u are u still come here to post fake news nd attach fake tribe to it which automatically make u a fake elder and a fake person u r dommed 

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:43 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 
Hey poster,How did you know that she's an Edo girl?
You berrrrra watch your mouth with shampoo and bleach so as not to die misteriously.
I never supported her lifestyle but you got to blame it on Nigeria Hardship and lack of job.
May her soul Rest In Peace.!

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:45 PM (11 years ago) | Newbie

useless fool is that not your write up.. you should be ashamed of yourself for been an elder as u claim yet living without your brain.. as elderly as u are u still come here to post fake news nd attach fake tribe to it which automatically make u a fake elder and a fake person u r dommed 

My sister tell him if he has lost his manners on a National thinking....Mtsheeeew
Jobless poster!
 

Posted: at 22-08-2012 04:48 PM (11 years ago) | Newbie

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