A Ghanaian migrant who attacked
and killed three passers-by with a pickaxe in Milan on May 11,
2013, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday following a
fast-track trial in which he was deemed to be mentally
semi-infirm.
Mada 'Adam' Kabobo was judged fit to stand trial last
October despite suffering from "schizophrenic psychosis" after
he killed pensioner Ermanno Masini, 64, unemployed 40-year-old
Alessandro Carole' and 21-year-old Daniele Carella in the early
morning rampage.
Kabobo's ability to control his actions was "greatly
diminished but not totally absent" and he was sufficiently "able
to understand" what he was doing to face murder charges,
psychiatrists said at the time.
Two other people were injured in Kabobo's hour-long string
of attacks before he was stopped by police.
On Tuesday preliminary hearings judge Manuela Scudieri also
sentenced Kabobo to three years in a care and surveillance
centre after prison and ordered compensation for the victims'
families.
Kabobo's defense lawyers, who had requested his acquittal
on grounds of total infirmity, said they would appeal against
the sentence.
They have already lodged a petition with the supreme Court
of Cassation for the Ghanaian to be transferred to a judicial
psychiatric hospital in order to receive more appropriate care.
Andrea Masini, son of the victim Ermanno Masini, described
Tuesday's sentence as "insufficient".
Meanwhile, relatives of the victims were expected to sue
the interior ministry for compensation on grounds Kabobo, who
came to Italy illegally in 2011 and was later served an
expulsion order, does not officially own anything.
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