'Family of the Woods', lawyer withdraws mandate: 'They rejected house and project'

The lawyer for the bosco family, Giovanni Angelucci, has decided to resign his mandate due to 'too much external interference. Unfortunately,' he wrote in a note, 'last night, after careful reflection, I decided, not without difficulty, to renounce the defence mandate given to me by Nathan Trevallion and Catherine Birmingham. I was forced to make such an extreme choice, which is the last one that a serious professional would want to adopt, since in the last few days my clients have received too much external interference that has undermined the trust placed at the basis of the professional relationship that binds lawyer and client'.

The lawyer's decision to revoke the defence mandate is said to have come about following the couple's umpteenth refusal of the proposals suggested by the lawyer. "Yesterday I was supposed to meet him again in the afternoon to carry out an inspection together of a house a few kilometres away from theirs, made available free of charge by an entrepreneur in the catering sector from Ortona, originally from Palmoli. This solution was in addition to the one proposed by Mayor Masciulli. However,' writes the lawyer, 'neither of the two hypotheses seemed to suit the Trevallion-Birmingham couple, so much so that no meeting took place yesterday. In addition,' the lawyer emphasises, 'yesterday I was also supposed to collect another signature from Nathan to proceed with the deposit of the extraordinary renovation project of the building with the civil engineer, but according to what the interested parties told me, such work would have been too invasive and impactful for them, so they decided not to sign or consent to the deposit of the project already prepared by the trusted technician. Yesterday morning, a local surveyor, who had contacted my lawyer, went to the 'casa del bosco' together with a representative of the firm Ssap San Salvo Appalti Spa, which was prepared to carry out the renovation work at its care and expense: however, it seems that this offer was also rejected by Mr Trevallion'.

The intention, before resigning, was to present an appeal in the Court of Appeal against the order of the Juvenile Court of L'Aquila

It will have to be done by 29 November and some points have already emerged on which it can be based. The most important is the project to modify the cottage in which they lived in the Abruzzo woods.

The extension would involve various works including, above all, the construction of a bathroom connected to the main house. Currently, in fact,the structure has no toilet and consists of only one room.