Mgr Padovese’s murderer gets 15 years in prison
ICC Note: After repeated postponements of hearings, Murat Altun was sentenced to 15 years in jail for the murder of Mgr Luigi Padovese in 2010. Since being arrested Altun has not held to one reason for the killing, blaming mental illness, Islamic rituals and other reasons.  However, in 2011 he was deemed mentally stable and able to stand trial.
By Geries Othman
01/22/2013 Turkey (AN) -Murat Altun, the young man who killed Mgr Luigi Padovese on 3 June 2010, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Murat Altun was 26 years old at the time of the murder. At the end of the trial, he said that he “was sorry for killing Mgr Luigi, who was the last person who could harm him. At that moment, I was not in control of myself”.
Since his arrest, Altun wavered in the explanations he gave for slitting the prelate’s throat, blaming successively mental illness, an Islamic ritual or a morbid homosexual relationship.
As was the case in Fr Andrea Santoro’s 2006 murder in Trabzon, Altun’s lawyers pleaded insanity, presenting medical assessments indicating that their client was not mentally competent to stand trial.
In June 2011, a medical commission in Istanbul determined that the accused was mentally competent to stand trial.
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