Riccardo Chiarioni, who, on the night between August 31 and September 1, 2024, when he was 17 years old, killed his father, mother and 12-year-old brother with 108 stab wounds in a villa in Paderno Dugnano, in the Milan area, was sentenced to twenty years in prison, the maximum penalty .
This was decided in the abbreviated trial by the Juvenile Court of Milan, which did not recognize the partial mental defect of the boy , defended by the lawyer Amedeo Rizza and who is now 18 years old, despite it having been confirmed by a psychiatric assessment. The Prosecutor's Office had requested 20 years. The same Court had already ordered a specific course of treatment for him.
After a deliberation lasting almost 10 hours, the preliminary hearing judge of the Juvenile Court, Paola Ghezzi, accepted the request of the Prosecutor's Office for 20 years of imprisonment, that is, the maximum sentence before the juvenile courts, already served by a third for the abbreviated procedure.
From what has been learned, with the verdict in the closed-door trial the judge did not recognize the partial defect, she recognized the mitigating circumstances prevailing over the contested aggravating circumstances, including premeditation, but decided, in any case, for the 20-year sentence . While for the prosecutors that sentence should have been calculated differently with the aggravating circumstances, including premeditation, which should have prevailed over the partial defect of mind and the mitigating circumstances.
In addition to the boy, his grandparents, who have always been close to him, were also present at the Juvenile Court.
"A very harsh sentence that I cannot accept and that I will appeal. The seriousness of the fact is not in question but I do not believe that we can get to 20 years, the maximum sentence, with the recognition of two mitigating circumstances. I will also appeal for the failure to recognize partial mental defect", declared Amedeo Rizza, Riccardo Chiarioni's lawyer .
(Online Union)
