Alex Pompa, the young man who in 2020 in Collegno , in the Turin area, stabbed his father, Giuseppe, to death to defend his mother during yet another family dispute, was sentenced to 6 years, 2 months and twenty days in prison .
The sentence was pronounced by the Assize Court of Appeal of Turin .
At first instance Alex was acquitted on the grounds of self-defense . The judges, among other things, ordered the transmission of the documents to the prosecutor's office so that the testimonies given by the brother and mother of the accused could be evaluated.
« Alex must be acquitted because he saved our lives . If we want something to change, if we want to prevent women from continuing to die and that there are no more cases like Giulia's (Cecchettin, ed.), the sentence cannot be this": thus Loris Pompa, Alex's brother. " We absolutely disagree and we will move forward ," he concluded.
«Alex - added his mother, Maria - is not a murderer. At this point I wonder if anyone would have really cared if I had been yet another woman killed ."
An "incomprehensible" and "difficult to accept" sentence, the words of the defense lawyer, Claudio Strata. The reference, in particular, is to the transmission of documents to the prosecutor's office so that the testimonies of the accused's mother and brother can be evaluated. «The two - observes the criminal lawyer - had already been heard separately on the same night as the crime. For the judges of first instance they had been considered reliable. The appeal judges had a different opinion. And this is difficult to accept."
(Unioneonline/vl)
