A murder suspect has confessed to killing an 18-year-old in her bed with a pair of scissors while “high” on drugs.
Sara Centelleghe was stabbed 67 times after she woke up to find an intruder in her flat.
Many of the wounds were to her face and neck.
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Now, after six months of silence, Jashandeep Badhan, who is in custody, has revealed his side of the brutal attack.
In his account of the killing, he claimed he was high on “cocaine, heroin, and cortisone” when he went into Sara’s flat.
The 20-year-old said he was looking for hashish – a compressed form of resin derived from the marijuana flowers – “to calm myself down” when Sara caught him and he began attacking her.
Badhan, who was 19 at the time of the crime on 26 October, said he believed Sara’s 17-year-old friend, who was spending the night at Sara’s, had some hash stashed away.
The police say Badhan had arranged to meet the 17-year-old after a night of partying, as reported by Need To Know.
He had texted her in the early hours: “If I give you 30 euros for some cocaine, can you give me 3g of hashish?”
He had later texted her: “Are you downstairs?”
But Badhan claims not to have seen her outside the building in Costa Volpino, north-east of Bergamo, Italy.
He said he went to Sara’s third-floor flat through the garage, found her front door open and went inside.
Badhan was rummaging through a rucksack when Sara woke up and caught him in the act.
He punched her in the face before grabbing a pair of scissors and stabbing her.
He then went back home to his flat in the building next door, with no hash but with Sara’s mobile phone.
The 17-year-old then called Badhan because she had been waiting for him for half an hour.
The police say he then lied to her that he had not gone out because he had been “caught” by his parents.
The 17-year-old then returned to Sara’s flat and found her friend dead in her bed in her bloodied Hello Kitty pyjamas.
Her mother, Marilisa Gambarini, recalled: “At 1:38am, Sara’s friend called me.
“She was agitated. I couldn’t understand what had happened. I thought it was a car accident.”
Sara was a sixth-form pupil and was thinking about studying aesthetic medicine.
In an earlier interrogation, Badhan claimed he had attacked her because he “got scared”.
Despite his recent attempt to blame his drug-altered state, local media say it is unlikely it will mitigate his punishment.
He remains charged with murder with aggravating factors and faces life imprisonment if convicted.
Gambarini, 40, said: “It changes little, because my daughter will never come back. She was my only child.”
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