The appeal presented by the lawyer Luigi Alfano following the rejection by the Court of Appeal of Rome of the request for review of the trial against Gianfranco Cherubini, the 61-year-old convicted, will be discussed on March 2 next to the V section of the Court of Cassation. to life imprisonment for killing his wife, Maria Pina Sedda, on 23 July 2002 in Nuoro.
The judges will decide only on the basis of the documentary elements.
Cherubini, already at the end of 2020, had relied on a group of experts to investigate some details and the team - formed by Davide Cannella, investigator known for having been a partisan consultant of Pietro Pacciani and Mario Vanni in the trial of the so-called monster of Florence, and Eugenio D'Orio, forensic geneticist - had found "new elements, never emerged before" useful for reopening the process.
In particular, these are three traces of blood and an unpublished genetic profile whose identification could, according to the defense's position, exonerate a man who has the prospect of life imprisonment in front of him. Maria Pina Sedda, 42 and suffering from severe hearing loss, was employed at the Nuoro Registry Office. The crime took place in the cellar of the family home.
The blood traces on which the consultants focus are those found on the way back from the cellar, where Maria Pina was found by her husband, who then gave the alarm, up to the stairs and towards the escape route. Traces that, according to Cherubini's lawyer and his team, could belong to the real killer. At the time they had been examined, but the question entrusted to the expert was limited to understanding whether or not they belonged to the victim. They weren't, because the DNA had the Y chromosome which shows that they necessarily belonged to a man. Yet it was not asked if that blood belonged to Cherubini.
(Unioneonline / ss)
