Missing Italian teen s body found after boyfriend admits to murder

Lecce (Italy) Sep 13 (IANS/AKI) Search teams in Italy s southern Puglia region on Wednesday found the corpse of missing 16-year-old Noemi Durini after her 17-year-old boyfriend confessed to murdering her.

Durini s body was found under rocks along a highway in the town of Castrignano del Capo some 16 km south of her hometown of Specchia from where she vanished early on September 3.

Durini s boyfriend is under investigation for her murder and his 41-year-old father is suspected of being an accessory to the murder local daily La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno reported citing police.

Durini s parents were both taken ill upon learning her body had been found.

A Specchia resident s security camera filmed Durini with her boyfriend inside a Fiat 500 car belonging to his parents shortly before Durini disappeared in the early hours of September 3 La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno reported.

Durini s boyfriend claimed he dropped her off by a sports field in Specchia after they spent the evening in a local discotheque but police became suspicious when he repeatedly contradicted himself while giving them his version of events.

In recent days a video reportedly surfaced showing Durini s boyfriend using a chair to smash up a car belonging to a friend of hers giving credence to earlier claims by Durini s mother that he was violent.

Durini s mother previously lodged a complaint with local magistrates against the youth over his allegedly violent behaviour causing a rift between the two families.

Chillingly just days before she disappeared Durini posted a photo of a young woman with a severely bruised and swollen face to Facebook captioning the photo: "If he hurts you it isn t love."

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