During the trial, the footballer claimed he was mentally unsound at the time of the attack

An Italian model and footballer has been jailed for life for stalking and beating his ex-girlfriend with a hammer. subway the report said. Giovanni Padovani, a 28-year-old former centre-back who played for San Cataledense, was found guilty on Monday of murdering his ex-girlfriend Alessandra Mateozzi in 2022 Matteuzzi was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In August 2022, the footballer beat Ms Mateusz, 56, with a hammer, a baseball bat and a bench after she reported him stalking her outside her home in Bologna. Ms Mateusz’s sister Stefania, who spoke to her on the phone during the attack, heard her screams for help as Padovani attacked her.

Ms Stefania told a local TV station: “She got out of the car and started screaming, ‘No, Giovanni, no, I beg you, help me, I’m on the phone. I called immediately [police] Who arrived immediately. “

Although Ms Mateusz initially survived the attack, she eventually died of her injuries in hospital.

Notably, the footballer traveled to Bologna in northern Italy and waited outside her residence after the team advised her to skip training. After they broke up, he kept texting and calling her and tried to climb onto her balcony.

One neighbor said: “She was very scared of him because he had become very stubborn and she didn’t want him in the house.”

During the trial, Padovani claimed he was mentally unsound at the time of the attack and said a mentally healthy person would not have committed such a crime.

He said: “If I were fully conscious and competent, I should be sentenced to life imprisonment. But if you think there is anything abnormal or abnormal about my behavior, then no. I am not in good health, because a healthy person No” don’t kill another human being. I’m in a nightmare, I’m sorry, it’s a bigger burden than prison. “