50-year-old Man Confesses To Killing His Mother, 80, On Live TV

A 50-year-old man, Lorenzo Carbone, has been arrested after he confessed to the killing of his 80-year-old mother on live television.

He told a journalist he had strangled his mother, Loretta Levrini, who was suffering from dementia after admitting he 'couldn't take it anymore.'

According to Mail Online, Lorenzo strangled his mother to death on Monday after she was found outside his home in Modena province, Italy.

Carbone wept throughout his confession, telling the reporter with Pomeriggio 5 that he 'didn't know why he did it... I couldn't manage her.

'Every now and then she made me angry as she kept repeating herself,' he said. Carbone had been living at home with her for the last 15 years.

The body of Ms Levrini was found in her bed by her daughter on Sunday, local media reports.

He told Pomeriggio 5 that he had fled to the nearby town of Pavullo, walking the streets before returning to their shared home in Spezzano di Fiorano.

Carbone insisted he left 'to do nothing, to get away'. 'No, I wasn't hiding,' he said.

In his candid admission, Carbone said that he had used lace to strangle his mother after trying to suffocate her with a pillowcase and ribbons [shoelaces].

'My mother would make me a little angry every now and then, but it wasn't like I went completely crazy,' he insisted.

'She just made me a little angry because she always said the same things...

'I wasn't getting treatment [for her] anywhere... It just came to me. 'Instinctively I did it,' he said, before bursting into tears.

Carbone added that his mother was 'between dementia and Alzheimer's and sometimes she said things that hurt me.'

'I couldn't take it anymore... I couldn't handle it.'

Journalist Fabio Giuffrida, interviewing, called police, broadcasting the arrest on Monday afternoon.

Carbone was taken to the police station for questioning and was 'unable to speak' when presented with the evidence against him, local media reports.

The body of Ms Levrini was taken for an autopsy late on Sunday. Results have not yet been reported.

Locals told Italian media the family were reserved, that Carbone had been unemployed for some time, and that his elderly mother was unwell.