The boss of Satnam Singh, an
off-the-books 31-year-old Indian farm labourer who bled out
after being dumped outside his hut with an arm severed by
wrapping machinery placed beside him on a fruit picking box at
Latina south of Rome, told a manslaughter trial Tuesday that he
had lost his head after the accident last June and was "not
myself" when he dumped Singh.
"I found Satnam there and I lost my head: it wasn't me. I never
wanted his death. The news of his passing two days after the
accident destroyed me. There is not a day that I don't think of
him and his family. I will always be close to Satnam's wife,"
said Antonello Lovato, the thirty-nine-year-old accused of the
labourer's death which brought the spotlight back onto
gangmastering and exploitation of mainly migrant farm hands in
Italy.
The next hearing of the trial, which began Tuesday, is scheduled
for May 27.
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