Murder of Lidia Macchi: the Supreme Court confirms the acquittal of Stefano Binda

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January 27, 2021 The Supreme Court confirmed the acquittal of Stefano Binda from the accusation of killing Lidia Macchi, the young student killed with 29 stab wounds in January 1987 and found dead in a wood in Cittiglio in the Varese area, a case that has remained unsolved ever since .

In the first instance, Binda was sentenced to life imprisonment, and then acquitted on appeal by the Milan Court of Assizes.

Now the stoats have declared inadmissible the appeal of the pg of Milan and of Lidia's family members.

The Court of Cassation confirmed the sentence of the Court of Assizes and Appeals of Milan, which in 2019 had acquitted Stefano Binda of the murder charge for the death of his friend Lidia Macchi.

The murder of Lidia Macchi remains a cold case.

The judges of the first criminal section of the Supreme Court confirmed the acquittal for Stefano Binda, former high school friend of the victim and the only accused, declaring the appeals presented by the Milan public prosecutor and the civil parties inadmissible.

The supreme judges therefore accepted the requests of the Deputy Attorney General Marco Dall'Olio who, during the indictment, had emphasized that "the author of the poem 'In death of a friend' is necessarily the author of the murder? "There is no element that leads that letter to the murder if not a suggestion. The DNA found on the victim does not match Binda and his alibi is not denied".

A detective story that dates back to 1987 when the twenty-year-old student was found dead in a forest near the hospital in Cittiglio, in the Varese area, where the young woman was going to visit a friend and who sees a turning point almost thirty years later with the arrest of Binda, who ended up on trial following a handwriting report on an anonymous letter sent to the girl's family.

Against the man, now fifty years old, there was, according to the accusation, the poem 'In the death of a friend' sent to the victim's parents, by post, on the day of the funeral.

On 24 April 2018 the Varese court of Assizes sentenced him to life imprisonment.

In July of the following year, however, the judges of the Milan Court of Assizes of Appeal acquitted him for not having committed the crime and he was released from prison after three and a half years of detention.