A preliminary investigations judge
on Tuesday dismissed a probe into a suspected alternative killer
of Chiara Poggi, the 26-year-old killed in the Italian town of
Garlasco in 2007.
The new probe, which started last year, looked at the
possibility that Poggi's killer may have been a friend of her
brother's, Andrea Sempio and not her boyfriend at the time
Alberto Stasi, who was convicted of the crime.
Stasi's defence team presented DNA evidence allegedly linking
Sempio to the murder.
But the judge, Fabio Lambertucci, on Tuesday dismissed the
team's work as "insubstantial".
When Stasi's team pout forward Sempio as the 'real' killer
last year, Poggi's family rejected the idea that Stasi was not
the man who had killed their daughter.
"The only person (responsible) has already been convicted by
an irrevocable sentence issued in the name of the Italian
people," the Poggi family lawyers said.
In the case dismissed Tuesday, the Pavia prosecutor's office
upheld a request from Stasi's mother to reopen the murder case.
Sempio was put under investigation in the fresh probe after
traces of his DNA were, according to an analysis ordered by the
defence team, found under the victim's nails.
The Poggi family lawyers, Gian Luigi Tizzoni and Francesco
Compagna, said in a statement that Italy's supreme Court of
Cassation acknowledged that expert analysis during the trial
regarding DNA under the victim's fingernails showed that "it
wasn't possible to make any consideration on the topic of
identity or of exclusion, as the defendant's defense team has
acknowledged several times".
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