The Rome Assize Court of Appeal sentenced Lee Elder Finnegan to 15 years and two months in prison and Gabriele Natale Hjorth to 11 years and 4 months, the two American students accused of the murder of the Carabiniere Mario Cerciello Rega which occurred in Rome in July 2019.
In issuing the second degree sentence, the court in the bis appeal applied a reduced sentence to the two.
The Court of Cassation had ordered a new trial for the two accused. In particular, the Supreme Judges had annulled Elder's 24-year sentence with a postponement on the aggravating circumstances and the existence of the crime of resisting a public official.
For Hjorth, who had been sentenced to 22 years, the annulment with postponement concerned the charge of complicity in murder. The judges of the second degree assize acquitted Elder of the charge of resisting a public official with the formula "because the fact does not exist".
(Unioneonline)
