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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Italian men hid father’s body so they could claim his pension, police believe

Aerial view of Castrovalva on mountainside
The four are alleged to have placed Delnegro’s body in a sleeping bag and transported it to the remote hamlet of Castrovalva (pictured). Photograph: RealyEasyStar/Ercole di Berardino/Alamy

Italian police believe that the body of man found by walkers in a remote spot in the Abruzzo region a year ago had been left there by his sons who continued to pocket his pension.

The body of Bruno Delnegro, who died of natural causes, was found by two Canadian walkers last July in a cave about 215 miles (350km) from his home in Trani, in the southern Puglia region.

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