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.