A woman sentenced in 2007 to 16
years in jail for killing 23-year-old Vanessa Russo after
stabbing her in the eye with an umbrella is now in semiliberty,
Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper reported Tuesday.
Doina Matei, a Romanian mother of two, now works in a
social cooperative in Venice during the day and returns to
prison in the evenings.
She is serving a sentence for manslaughter in relation to
the umbrella stabbing at Rome's Termini station on April 26,
2007.
Matei, who subsequently ran off and was arrested a few days
later, said at trial that she did not intend to kill Russo.
"In this case the prison system has worked well and has
brought the punishment to a level that is acceptable and
proportional to manslaughter and also fine-tuned it to the
person of Doina Matei and to her life experience," Matei's
lawyer Nino Marazzita said.
"At the time of the incident my client had just turned 18
and came from a difficult background with two children," he
continued.
"The woman has served her punishment and now has the right
to reintegrate herself into society," Marazzita concluded.
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