Mother killed son, 8, when he found out about her affair with his grandfather

  
A mother has been jailed for 30 years after she murdered her son when he discovered she was having an affair with his grandfather.
Veronica Panarello strangled her son Loris Stival with electrical cables then abandoned his body in a remote gully in Santa Croce, Sicily.

She then told police that he had been abducted, saying that she had taken him to school and he had disappeared by the time she went back to get him in the afternoon.
However, CCTV footage from the school proved that she had not dropped him off that day and police started treating her as a suspect.
She was found guilty of Loris’s murder and of concealing a body, despite continuing to deny the murder even when the sentence was passed.

Loris Stival was killed after walking in on his mother having sex with his grandfather (Picture: CEN)

Prosecutors branded her an ‘egocentric, manipulative liar.’
When Panarello confessed that her son had been killed in November 2014, she blamed her husband’s father Andrea Stival.

She told an earlier hearing that he had helped to plot and then carried out the murder because Loris had caught them having sex.
Stival is being investigated as an accessory to murder, according to Italian media.
He has denied the claim and is threatening to sue his daughter-in-law for slander, it has emerged.
Her husband has now filed for divorce.