Crime Sara Di Pietrantonio: 30 years on appeal to ex-boyfriend Vincenzo Paduano
Rome killed and burned ex-girlfriend Sara Di Pietrantonio: life imprisonment for Vincenzo Paduano
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April 23, 2021 Life sentence confirmed definitively for Vincenzo Paduano, the former security guard accused of having stunned, strangled and set on fire the ex-girlfriend Sara Di Pietrantonio, a 22-year-old student, on 29 May 2016 in the Magliana district of Rome. This was decided by the Fifth Criminal Section of the Cassation, rejecting the defense appeal against the sentence that had been issued, during the referral, by the Assize Court of Appeal of Rome on 11 September 2019.
Paduano, detained in the Rebibbia penitentiary, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first degree, the sentence reduced to 30 years of imprisonment in the first appeal judgment, which was then annulled with referral by the Supreme Court: the judges of Piazza Cavour had on that occasion, a new trial was ordered only to redetermine - in order to increase it - the penalty, considering that the crime of stalking the accused could not be absorbed into that of murder. The Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome, therefore, in September 2019, following the indications of the Cassation, had recalculated the sentence, defining it with life imprisonment.
Against this ruling, Paduano's defense turned to the magistrates of the 'Palazzaccio', who, however, after a council chamber held today (none of the lawyers had solicited the oral discussion of the trial, which, therefore, took place in paper format, as expected in this phase of the Covid emergency), confirmed the decision of the appeal judges-bis.