A Milan court on Friday found
construction worker Massimo Bossetti guilty of the murder of
schoolgirl Yara Gambirasio in 2010.
Judges sentenced Bossetti to spend the rest of his life in
prison.
The court found that Bossetti murdered the 13-year-old
Yara, who went missing in November 2010 and whose body was found
in an isolated field the following February.
Before sentencing, Bossetti told the court in his final
appeal that he might be uneducated but that does not make him a
killer.
"I might be stupid, a cretin, extremely ignorant, but I'm
not a murderer," the construction worker told the court.
"What I'm accused of is shameful".
The father of three was arrested in 2014 after extensive
DNA testing of the local population tracked him down as the
biological son of a local bus driver, Giuseppe Guerinoni, who
died in 1999.
This in turn identified Bossetti as the donor of DNA found
on the teen's body.
Forensic experts also found traces of the fabric from seats
in Bossetti's van on the leggings worn by Yara the day she
disappeared.
Prosecutors argued the murder was aggravated by torture and
cruelty because the victim was struck three times in the head
and stabbed multiple times before being dumped in the field,
where she died from a combination of the injuries and exposure.
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