The Court of Appeal of Rome has accepted the request for revision of the trial made by the lifer Beniamino Zuncheddu and his lawyer Mauro Trogu: a result obtained after two years of procedural battle and a similar request made by the General Prosecutor of Cagliari.
The constituency of the Capital deemed the judgment admissible and then postponed to May for the request for evidence (witnesses) and to hear the testimony of the expert who will have to explain some passages deemed unclear of the interceptions at the basis of the judicial proceeding.
The 57-year-old pastor from Burcei, who has been in prison for 32 years, wants to demonstrate his extraneousness to the triple homicide in Sinnai committed in 1991 (three corpses and a survivor at an altitude of 700 metres, crimes linked to trespassing and quarrels between farmers) and which cost him his definitive sentence to life imprisonment (today he is in semi-freedom). Everything revolves around the dialogues (heard by the carabinieri) between the sole survivor of the massacre and his wife which took place three years ago in the car parked in front of the courthouse, where the man had been heard by the Attorney General Francesca Nanni to clarify some points considered doubtful in the reconstruction of the crimes.
The survivor, explaining to the woman what questions the magistrate and the carabinieri had asked him, had revealed that " they wanted me to say that Marieddu (the policeman who had worked on the crimes) showed me the photograph", that of Zuncheddu, "before". , that is, in advance of the official recognition , «they understood that it really is like this, and it is the truth...». For the pg this meant that " the only source of evidence" against Zuncheddu was "unreliable" and "the main evidence that led to the conviction" was "false" . Hence the request for revision. Admitted by the Court.
In May, the requests for evidence will be presented, i.e. some testimonies related to the interceptions, and the expert could be heard to explain the meaning of some sentences.