Wife of former Italy rugby star stabbed her son to death

SPORT Six Nations rugby star's wife arrested on suspicion of murdering their children before attempting suicide The wife of former Italy rugby international Andrea Benatti allegedly suffocated her two-year-old daughter and stabbed her five-year-old son before attempting to take her life ByJack Rathborn 09:28, 12 DEC 2017UPDATED10:17, 12 DEC 2017 The wife of former Italy rugby international Andrea Benatti has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her two young children before attempting to take her own life. The tragedy reportedly began in the family home in Suzzara, situated two hours south of Milan in Lombardy, where Antonella Barbieri claimed to have smothered her two-year-old daughter Kim with a pillow. The former model reportedly then set off on a drive with her five-year-old son Lorenzo Zeus. It is then thought that she stabbed him with a kitchen knife before turning the weapon on herself, driving it into her stomach.