Romanian Rapist Had Rap Sheet
According to police sources, Nicolae Romulus Mailat, now aged 25, from Vurpar locality in central Romanian Sibiu county, was committed in 1997, when he was 14, in a special School for work and reeducation.
In March 2006, he was convicted, by a Sibiu court to three years imprisonment for theft, and he received a pardon in the same year, through Law 543/2002. As soon as he was pardoned, Mailat left for Italy. Italian authorities said that he lived in an improvised camp and he did not have a stable job.
Mailatwas arrested Wednesday evening, by Italian police, near a Romani camp in Tor di Quinto (Rome), under the suspicion that he raped and killed the wife of an Italian admiral, whom he approached Tuesday evening, as soon as she got off a bus. After beating and raping the woman, Mailat presumably dumped her almost lifeless body in a ditch near Tor di Quinto, where she was found and taken to a hospital in deep coma. The victim died a few hours after reaching the hospital.
Mailat was arrested when several eyewitnesses, including a Romanian woman, said they saw him carrying the body. When he was arrested, he had several scratches and wounds on his face, probably caused by the victim in self-defense. Also, the woman’s purse was found where he sleeps.