A 49-year-old Italian woman was
acquitted of charges of stabbing her partner to death after a
court ruled she had been defending herself.
Silvia Rossetto met the victim, Giuseppe Marcon, in a rehab
centre for people with mental problems.
She told police she had been the victim of continual domestic
abuse after they got together.
Rossetto killed Marcon, 48, with a single knife thrust on
September 2, 2018 at Nichelino near Turin.
Prosecutors has requested a jail term of nine years and four
months for her.
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