Massimo Bossetti said Friday
that he might be uneducated but that does not make him a killer
as he made his final appeal in the trial for the murder of
schoolgirl Yara Gambirasio. "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".
Yara, 13, went missing in November 2010 and her body was
found in an isolated field the following February.
Bossetti's defence team disputes the forensic evidence the
case against him is based on.
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.
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