There were scenes of tension in a
Rome court on Thursday when a 24-year-old Cuban, Yoandris Medina
Nunez, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting dead his
ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Nicole Lelli, in November 2015. The
victim's family and friends tried to attack Medina Nunez and
hurled insults at the judge for what they considered an
excessively soft sentence. The prosecutor had requested a life
sentence for premeditated murder. The preliminary hearings judge
ruled the crime was not premeditated and cut off a third of the
30-year sentence because it was a fast-track trial, according to
Italian law. When the sentence was read out there were shouts of
"shame", "villains", "he'll be free in a few years" and "let us
lynch him".
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