The supreme Court of Cassation on
Friday upheld a life term for Nigerian pusher Innocent Oseghale
for the murder and rape 18-year-old Roman woman Pamela
Mastropietro outside Macerata in Marche in January 2018 and the
dismemberment of her corpse.
The defence lawyers of Oseghale, 36, had filed an extraordinary
appeal to exclude the charge of sexual violence from the
conviction, due to alleged errors during the proceedings, and to
annul the life-imprisonment sentence.
But the Cassation judges said Friday that they have rejected the
appeal.
Mastropietro's murder prompted a rightwing militant, Luca
Traini, to shoot and wound six African migrants in a drive-by
'revenge' shooting in Macerata days later.
He was sentenced to 12 years in jail for that in March 2021.
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