The sentence has been increased for Pier Paolo Brega Massone, who nevertheless does not return to prison again. The former head of thoracic surgery of the Santa Rita clinic in Milan sentenced in 2018 in the appeal process bis to 15 years of imprisonment, in appeal ter he was given a sentence of 21 years and 4 months which, due to the amnesty dropped to 18 years and 4 months.
However, since he has been in his cell for 15 and a half years, when the sentence becomes final, he will serve the remaining part in probationary custody to social services.
The recalculation of the Court of Appeal came following the postponement of the Supreme Court, for which the man had to be challenged, alongside the manslaughter, the aggravating circumstance of the purpose of profit.
Pier Paolo Brega Massone is accused of the death of 4 patients. The Court has also redetermined the sentence for Fabio Persicci, his right-hand man accused for two of the 4 deaths: it has gone from 7 years and 8 months to 8 years and 8 months.
"It's finally over", Brega's wife just said after reading the device. "A very painful affair for everyone has ended," said the lawyer Mauro Mocchi, defender of Presicci.
THE CLINIC OF HORRORS - The episode immediately jumped to the news and that of Santa Rita was called the "clinic of horrors". According to what was reconstructed, Brega Massone operated on patients even if there was no need to obtain reimbursements from the national health system. At the time, the doctors of the private health care agreement were paid for each single intervention: the more they operated, the more they earned.
These operations ended up killing 4 people and causing serious injuries in 34 other patients.