The supreme Court of Cassation on
Wednesday rejected Alberto Stasi's petition to suspend his
16-year prison term for murdering his girlfriend Chiara Poggi in
the northern town of Garlasco in August 2007 and to reopen the
case.
Stasi's lawyers had made an extraordinary appeal to review
the sentence, which in theory was already definitive, with a new
appeals trial with witnesses that had given evidence at the
first-instance trial.
Earlier this year a probe into a suspected alternative killer
of Poggi, 26, was shelved.
That probe looked at the possibility that Poggi's killer may
have been a friend of her brother's.
Stasi's defence team presented DNA evidence allegedly linking
the friend to the murder.
But a preliminary investigations judge dismissed the
team's work as "insubstantial".
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