Replying to a question from Fabio Giuffrida, a reporter who works for Mediaset’s program Pomeriggio 5, the man teared up and admitted to strangling his mother.

“I couldn’t stand it any longer, I couldn’t manage her,” he said.

“I don’t know why I did it.

“Sometimes, she made me angry because she always repeated the same things.”

The journalist called the Carabinieri police and the man was arrested.

The woman was found dead on Sunday afternoon.

ANSA