Asked for confirmation at 30 for the nurse killer of Saronno

• Appeal confirms 30-year sentence for former Saronno nurse

• Dead in the ward in Saronno, Laura Taroni sentenced to 30 years

• Saronno deaths in ward, investigating judge: the doctor remains in prison

• Saronno, other suspicious deaths are investigated: 50 medical records seized

• Saronno's killer lovers.

  You to the doctor: if you want to kill the children too

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08 February 2021 The Deputy Attorney General of Milan Nunzia Ciaravolo asked, together with the civil parties, in the appeal process bis which is taking place with an abbreviated procedure in the Lombard capital, the confirmation of the 30-year sentence for Laura Taroni, the former nurse from Saronno (Varese).

The woman is accused of the murder of her husband and her mother, in competition with her ex-lover, the doctor of the Saronno hospital, Leonardo Cazzaniga, former deputy primary of the ER, accused, in the parallel trial, of 12 murders.

The magistrate returns to ask for confirmation of the sentence for Laura Taroni reiterating the woman's responsibility for the crime of Massimo Guerra, her husband, and Maria Rita Clerici, the mother, killed between June 2012 and January 2014. Both murdered at home with a lethal mix of drugs.

The first instance sentence issued by the Court of Busto Arsizio, confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Milan, in which Taroni was sentenced to 30 years in 2019, was annulled in the Court of Cassation.

The Supreme Court had ordered the

 for the lack of about 13 pages in the motivations but also, the judges write, for an "complete avoidance" of the problem of the mental condition of the former nurse.

Following this decision, the Court of Assizes of Appeal had ordered a new psychiatric report on the woman accused of murder.

The result of the psychiatric examination showed that Taroni may have a "fascination for a control over death" but despite psychic disorders and "components of a neurotic hysterical personality", she was sane at the time of the crimes.

The prosecutor returned to ask for confirmation of the sentence for Laura Taroni who - "in this delirium of a couple" with her ex-lover - showed "a clear will to kill" her husband, "carried on with tenacity".

Retracing the story, the substitute pg Nunzia Ciaravolo underlines how there would have been "a casual and contemptuous use of drugs to make people right".

For the accused "the sacrificial victim theory" does not fit.

According to this theory, according to which the former nurse would have tried to keep calm her husband who would have forced her into sexual practices, has no basis.

According to the indictment, Taroni "made sure to have her husband die at home and not in the emergency room".

If the first attempts to kill Massimo Guerra are unsuccessful, he continues with his intent "with an abnormal perseverance and with lucidity changing strategy". 

The response of Laura Taroni's defense and hearing from the plaintiff lawyers (in particular the lawyer representing the two children of the former nurse, entrusted to a support administrator) is scheduled for the hearing on Tuesday 9 February.

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after the Council Chamber.