The Supreme Court has once again confirmed the life sentence handed down to Innocent Oseghale, a 36-year-old Nigerian , in the proceedings for the murder, rape and dismemberment of the body of 18-year-old Roman Pamela Mastropietro, which took place on 30 January 2018 in Macerata.
The Court of Cassation, accepting the request of the Attorney General to confirm the sentence, today filed the verdict with which it rejected the extraordinary appeal of the defense that asked to exclude the charge of sexual violence on the basis of alleged material errors and to annul the sentence that had imposed life imprisonment.
The aim of the extraordinary appeal proposed by the defence of the 36-year-old pusher, currently detained in Ferrara, was the annulment of the life sentence and the renewal of the
judgment.
The defense had based their appeal on some elements according to which, in their opinion, material errors had been committed in the reconstruction of the facts considered in the Court's ruling: according to the defense, the judges had not considered that Oseghale did not directly sell the heroin to the girl, who had consensual sexual intercourse with him with the 18-year-old in the Fontescodella underpass, outside the house in via Spalato 124 where she was killed, with the promise of having the drug delivered to her by another pusher.
Circumstances that, according to the lawyers, would undermine the prosecution's reconstruction according to which the relationship would have taken place at home where the young woman would have been lured with the promise of supplying drugs and raped when she was under the influence of heroin and in conditions of mental inferiority and diminished defense.
The Court of Cassation, which confirmed the never-ending sentence, has a different opinion.
(Online Union)