A 26-year-old Colombian native,
Freilin David Lopez Villa, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on
Tuesday by a Milan court.
He had been in jail since March after raping a 19-year-old
woman and beating up her 23-year-old boyfriend while threatening
them with a pistol that later was found to be a toy gun.
The two students had been in an isolated area of an outlying
area of the city in a car.
The girl had recognized their attacker from a photo he posted
on Facebook.
The Colombian did not have official papers to be in Italy and
the judge has ordered that he be deported after his sentence is
served.
He had previously been reported to the police for carrying a
knife.
He was charged with robbery, rape and having kept the two
students hostage for almost two hours that night.
The man denied the charges, saying he had approached the
couple for a lighter and that he had reacted after a rude
response by the man and that he had taken hallucinogenic
mushrooms that night and could not remember almost anything.
The judge sentenced the man to pay damages to the two
victims, setting a provisional figure of 25,000 euros for each.
The boy's father said that he approved of the sentence given.
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