A Bologna appeals court on
Wednesday upheld a 30-year prison sentence in a murder case
women's rights lawyers called a textbook stalking case.
Construction worker and Sardinia native Giulio Caria, 37,
was first convicted in 2014 of murder aggravated by cruelty and
stalking for bludgeoning his live-in accountant girlfriend
Silvia Caramazza to death and keeping her body in a freezer in
June 2013.
He was also found guilty of threatening witnesses and
stealing the victim's credit cards.
"This was a textbook stalking case," said lawyer Rossella
Mariuz from the Union of Women in Italy (UDI), a civil plaintiff
in the case.
The murder was preceded by "clear-cut acts of persecution
lasting a year and a half, documented by 3,000 pages of
investigative documents and multiple witnesses," she said.
"Unfortunately no one stopped him in time," Mariuz
concluded.
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